coattail

1 It appears that Mr Beattie is trying to ride the coattails of his former career.

2 With a parrot on each shoulder and a barrel of rum at his side, he braves a fresh breeze that lifts his coattails and his long beard.

3 The door burst open and he flew in with his coattails streaming behind him.

4 I didn't go to culinary school, but I had an education in the kitchen on my mom's coattails all my life.

5 Then there was dear old Abu Hopkins herself, who could certainly use a coattail to cling on to these days, and was perhaps seeking to position herself as the Winnie Mandela to Robinson’s Nelson.

6 The biggest question of all is whether the United States can ride the coattails of history moving through Ukraine and achieve a stable balance of power in Europe and beyond.

7 Then she caught the minister by the sleeve of his jacket and his coattail, then she rocked him from side to side.

8 A man much like these men, with his white coattails billowing behind him like a pair of paper wings.

9 The "3-D" was hastily added in postproduction to ride on the coattails of Avatar.

10 Seen afresh, and without riding the coattails of nostalgia, the play tallies unexpectedly with our own intensely felt era of downsizing and layoffs that has made mincemeat of the middle classes.

11 He tra-la-la-ed his way through the “Champagne Song” from Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus,” drinking a flute of bubbly and, turning his back to the crowd, offering a cheeky flip of his coattails.

12 As Booth positioned for the leap to the stage, Rathbone came at him again, grabbing his coattail.

13 There’s also an argument that the rest of the Mountain West rode those coattails to a record number of NCAA Tournament bids.

14 I also had the feeling that maybe if the Bangles went through they might drag us on their coattails.

15 The Public Theater, which opened its first show in the 1960s, claims that the Public hotel is essentially siphoning off its business by riding on its theatrical coattails.

16 "The A-Team" is due to hit U.S. stores on June 12, riding the coattails of successful entries into the market by British boy bands One Direction and The Wanted.

17 “So it was quite serendipitous for us. And now we’re all going to go to America, riding their coattails, and become vampires.”

18 When I looked at Uncle Willie, I knew what was pulling my mind’s coattails.

19 I mean it in the best way when I compare the Sansa-Littlefinger pairing to a particularly good Survivor final two, in the sense that it’s impossible to tell who’s riding whose coattails.

20 Films weren’t taken particularly seriously at the time, but the justices said that the film’s advertisement had relied on the book’s success and its makers were wrong to have hitched a ride on Wallace’s coattails.

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