on coat-tails

on somebody's coat-tails

if you achieve something on someone's coat-tails, you only achieve it because of their help or influence She'd risen to fame on the coat-tails of her half-sister.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iohannes	-	Biblical Latin
EulÁLia	-	Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovak
Shankar	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Nepali
Winona	wi-NON-ə (English)	English, Native American, Sioux
Birthe	BEER-te	Danish
Marylu	mer-ee-LOO, mar-ee-LOO	English (Rare)