ride on coattails

ride on someone's coattails

and hang on someone's coattails

Fig. to make one's good fortune or success on the strength of someone else's. (Also with else, as in the examples.) Bill isn't very creative, so he rides on John's coattails. Some people just have to hang on somebody else's coattails.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
EloÍSa	-	Spanish
Ragna	-	Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Ancient Scandinavian
VĂN	-	Vietnamese
Mika (2)	mee-kah	Japanese
Maynerd	MAY-nərd	English (Rare)
Martina	mahr-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Dutch), mahr-TEEN-ə (English)	German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, English, Swedish, Dutch, Ancien