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coat-tail

noun

  1. the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
  2. on someone's coat-tails
    thanks to the popularity or success of someone else
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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