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coat-trailing
[ koht-trey-ling ]
noun
British.
- behavior that is deliberately provocative.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of coat-trailing1
First recorded in 1925–30; from the phrase trail one's coat, provoking someone to step on it
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
The book to some extent invited—and Kingsley availed himself of the opportunity in a far more than sufficient degree—that "coat-trailing" which, as has been said, inevitably in its turn provokes "coat-treading": and it has been abused from various quarters.
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