| The evolution of fashion away from coattails for men and billowing crinolines for women put pockets nearer the body and less pickable. |
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| In some activities, riding another person's coattails is frowned upon, but in cycling the practice, known as slipstreaming, is an art form. |
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| This time around, brokers are hoping to hitch a ride on the former tenant's coattails. |
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| All this could leave the door wide open to third parties interested in riding on the coattails of a company's fame. |
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| Why are these hulking he-men hiding behind their lawyer's coattails? |
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| On the other, if he squeaks out a victory in a GOP wave year, Republicans may be skeptical that he has coattails. |
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| Not only are they riding the coattails of men, but they are no longer even with these men. |
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| They aren't eager young design students hoping to score someone's extra invitation or sneak in on a kindly editor's coattails. |
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| She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics. |
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| Like the party on whose coattails it rides, change is likely torturous and glacially paced. |
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| The year before, he was the toast of the German Film Awards with a film that is only now arriving on video in North America, riding on Lola's fiery red coattails. |
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| I ride the political coattails of the lobbyists and the firebrands. |
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| In fact, there was some evidence of the shortness of Brazilian political coattails. |
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| To paraphrase him, he said that we are riding on the coattails of a reputation that we no longer deserve. |
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| After getting married, a man wore a long coat with two coattails, which gaped open when he walked. |
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| I hope that the European Parliament will be hanging onto the coattails of the Commission in this reform process. |
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| We will never ride the coattails of other forces to the kind of influence within the movements of the oppressed that we hope to achieve. |
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| We watched as they rode on President Obama's coattails in the auto sector. |
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| The numbers will ride, as it were, on the coattails of the vision. |
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| And now, perhaps, it has ridden in on the coattails of the iconoclastic trend in the modern study of fairy tales, with Disney's prettified versions being execrated by feminists and queer-studies writers. |
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| Often there are other represented parties on the same side as the self-represented party, and he or she need do little more than ride on their coattails. |
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| Other people, who will ride on their coattails when it suits their political ambitions, will sometimes enter into socialist, separatist or opportunist alliances. |
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| Then we'd be happy to ride the coattails of that. |
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| Riding the coattails of the veterans, the Liberal government is promising to send money to build a monument at Juno Beach that the veterans have already built. |
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| Fillion also claimed that Tétrault had only achieved success on the coattails of others, was only interested in young women and was known to leave important business meetings for frivolous personal reasons. |
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| Further, some investors ride the coattails of investor giants, such as Warren Buffett, meaning they would frequently invest in the stocks Buffet invested in. |
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