Coattails
in example sentence
The BJP’s growth from the mid-1980s followed on the
coattails
of the RSS.
More example sentences with word coattails
Many Detroiters, myself included, are worried segregation is now returning to the city itself on the
coattails
of this renaissance.
You know the drill: young hotshot with hubristic flaw (in this case, Matthew McConaughey, trying to jump-start a flagging career by latching onto Pacino's
coattails
-- hey, it worked for Keanu and Colin, didn't it?) is discovered by glamorous and delightfully corrupt father figure (Pacino, natch).
If this was a stand alone flick, it wouldn't be so bad, but riding on the
coattails
of a brilliant piece like Atlantis makes it utterly inexcuseable.
The problem is that the movie rode in on the
coattails
of the 60's-created concept that comic books could only be done as "camp" (i.e., the 60's Batman show) for TV and movie.
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