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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
  2. (usually, in the plural, figurative) Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.

Exempel

  • At twilight in the summer[...]the mice come out. They[...]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[...]on the floor.
  • Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

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