Synonyms for on the coattails
on the coat·tails

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1. on the coattails, one one's coattailsadverb

   immediately following or undeservedly benefiting from

   "the CEO resigned on the coattails of the scandal"; "he was elected on his predecessor's coattails"

   Synonyms:
   one one's coattails

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1. Jon Ausman:

   Presidential candidates have coattails; congressional candidates do not, but more money may be spent on field operations.

2. Raymond Moore:

   In my next life when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA, because they ride on the coattails of the men, they don't make any decisions and they are lucky.

3. Bruce Montgomery:

   Don't hide behind the coattails of government. Move forward with business solutions to solve the problems that we have right now, the good news is through advanced technologies, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing, you can put a manufacturing facility in your basement. You can put it in a 1,000 square foot garage. There's no reason we shouldn't be making and printing and designing and producing. And look, you can put a saying on a t-shirt and sell them for $40 and make a $2,000 on the weekend. So get your hustle on, and start doing business.

4. Clarence S. Darrow:

   Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

5. Rory McIlroy:

   I just needed to hang on his coattails, he was kicking me on today, for sure. I was trying to keep up with him and didn't want to let him get too far ahead.