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• coat-tail

語源

coat +‎ tail

名詞

coattail (複数形 coattails)

1. The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.

2. (usually in the plural, figuratively) Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
   • 2012 October 6, “The Senate: Not so flippable”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts […].

   • 2020 November 17, Ben Chu, “Review: How to Make the World Add Up, by Tim Harford”, in The Independent‎^[2], retrieved 2021-01-13:

     And Harford grabs the coattails of the trend, giving us 10 rules for thinking differently about numbers in the news, ranging from “check your feelings”, to “ponder your personal experience”, to “keep an open mind”.

上位語

• tail

関連する語

• on the coattails of
• ride the coattails