on one's coat-tails
в результате чьих-либо усилий
Пример использования идиомы on one's coat-tails:
This deputy was elected on his rich sponsors' coat-tails.
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Другие идиомы:
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- on one's heels
- one good turn deserves another
- hundred and one
- one at a time
- out of one's shell
- off one's high horse
- on one's own time
- odds are against one
- one by one
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- on one's high horse
- off one's hands
- one and only
- over one's head