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on the average |
on the ball |
on the beam |
on the brink |
on the button |
on the coattails
| on the contrary
| on the dot
| on the double
| on the face of it
| on the far side
on the coattails
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial on the coattails has 1 sense
- on the coattails(r = adv.all) one one's coattails - immediately following or undeservedly benefiting from; "the CEO resigned on the coattails of the scandal"; "he was elected on his predecessor's coattails"
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