also coattails
1.
Coat-tails are the two long pieces at the back of a tailcoat .
N-PLURAL : oft poss N
2.
If you do something on the coat-tails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person’s success, and not because of your own efforts.
They accused him of riding on the coat-tails of the president.
PHRASE : usu PHR after v