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COATTAIL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. The rear flap of a man's coat. 2. Coattails plural : the skirts of a dress coat, cutaway, or frock coat. 3. Coattails plural : the influence or pulling ...
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COATTAILS definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
If you do something on the coattails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person's success, and not because of your own efforts.
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Coattail Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
COATTAIL meaning: 1 : a long piece of cloth that hangs down at the back of a man's formal coat usually plural; 2 : the help or influence of another person's ...
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coat-tail
coat-tail The tail of a coat. to sit, etc., on one's own coat-tail: ‘to live, or to do any thing, at one's personal expense’ (Jam.). Sc. to drag his coat-tails, so that some one may tread on them (attributed to Irishmen at Donnybrook Fair): to put himself purposely in a position in which some one ma...
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Coattail effect - Wikipedia
The coattail effect or down-ballot effect is the tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an ...
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COATTAIL Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
noun · the back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket. · one of the two back parts of the skirt of a coat, especially one of the tails on a tailcoat.
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coat-tailed
ˈcoat-tailed, a. [f. coat-tail + -ed2.] Having coat-tails.1902 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 3/1 The bolero and blouse coat with their coat-tailed and basqued variations. Ibid. 25 Sept. 3/2 A coat-tailed bolero.
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Coattail Effect in the Election Glossary - polyas
The coattail effect describes the phenomenon of a popular presidential candidate or political party leader being able to attract votes for other candidates in ...
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COAT-TAILS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
the long, divided pieces of cloth that hang down from the back of an old-fashioned, formal type of man's jacket
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coat-tail, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun coat-tail. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in Scottish ...
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Coat-tail - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating c.1600 from coat + tail, "coattail" means coat flaps; later, its meaning extended to personal power (from 1848) and political advantage (from ...
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coattail - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist. · (usually in the plural, figurative) Success of a figure, organization or ...
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Cannon Fodder 3
Cocks summarised: "Cannon Fodder 3 is the ultimate coat-tail rider [...] perhaps there is some nostalgic pleasure to be taken in this but for the most
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Tracks 43–50 from Eleventh 7-inch EP (Slap a Ham Records, 1997)
Track 51 from split 5" EP w/ Xerobot (Coat-Tail
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lak
▪ I. lak1 (lak) Repr. U.S. dial. (esp. Black English) pronunc. of like a., adv., and v.11881 J. C. Harris Nights with Uncle Remus (1884) xvi. 80 He'd skuze hisse'f, he would, en gallop down de big road a piece, en paw up de san' same lak dat ar ball-faced steer w'at tuck'n tuck off yo' pa' coat-tail...
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