one one's coattails

1. 1.

   immediately following or undeservedly benefiting from

   “the CEO resigned on the coattails of the scandal”

   “he was elected on his predecessor's coattails”

   Synonymson the coattails

Questions about one one's coattails

What does one one's coattails mean?

one one's coattails means "immediately following or undeservedly benefiting from".

What is another word for one one's coattails?

Close synonyms include on the coattails. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is one one's coattails a common word?

one one's coattails is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.