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
Ulvİ	-	Turkish
Light	[lait]
Per	PER (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Breton
Vitomir	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Medieval Slavic
Ezekiel	i-ZEE-kee-əl (English), i-ZEE-kyəl (English)	Biblical, English
Wilbur	['wilbə]