on one's coat-tails
в результате чьих-либо усилий
Пример использования идиомы on one's coat-tails:
This deputy was elected on his rich sponsors' coat-tails.
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Другие идиомы:
- one-armed bandit
- one good turn deserves another
- back to square one
- on one's honor
- off one's hands
- one jump/step ahead of (someone or something)
- one-upmanship
- off one's chest
- one or two
- in one fell swoop
- two heads are better than one
- out of the corner of one's eye
- of one mind
- one in a thousand
- on the one hand