| 单词 | coattail |
| 释义 | coattail[ koht-teyl ] / ˈkoʊtˌteɪl / nounthe back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket. one of the two back parts of the skirt of a coat, especially one of the tails on a tail coat. adjectivegained by association with another, especially with a successful or celebrated person: coattail benefits. Idioms for coattailon someone's coattails, aided by association with another person: The senator rode into office on the president's coattails. on the coattails of, immediately after or as a result of: His decline in popularity followed on the coattails of the scandal. Origin of coattailFirst recorded in 1590–1600; coat + tail1 Words nearby coattailcoat protein, coatrack, coatroom, Coats disease, Coatsworth, coattail, coattail effect, coattails, coat-trailing, coat tree, Coatzacoalcos Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for coattail
British Dictionary definitions for coattailcoat-tail nounthe long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat on someone's coat-tails thanks to the popularity or success of someone else Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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