1. Home
2. Idioms
3. follow on

follow on

---

---

follow on

 (after someone or something)

1. Lit. to depart and arrive after someone or something. I can't leave now. I will have to follow on after the others. I will follow on later.

2. Fig. to die at a date later than someone or a group. She followed on after her husband a few years later, He died in June and she followed on in August.

See also: follow, on