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
Baila	-	Yiddish
Hoebaer	huy-BER	Limburgish
Yan (1)	-	Belarusian
Devine	[də'vain]
Denise	de-NEEZ (French), də-NEES (English), də-NEE-sə (Dutch)	French, English, Dutch
Siv	SEEV	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Norse Mythology