coattail

The young girl continues to tug on my coattail in frustration.

I started to get in but a camel thought my coattail was edible and pulled me back.

Some of these forces, like the Presidential coattail effect, should help the Democrats.

If you were a wannabe, he was a great coattail to ride on."

He ducked his head below window level and grabbed at Blum's coattail.

The guppies and I watched her coattail disappear around the corner.

The spanner cut into Becker's hand, so he used his coattail to cushion it.

The young girl is tugging on my coattail.

Fox Video's strategy could be called coattail marketing.

Will the Presidential vote carry down to the Senate race - the so-called coattail effect?

Using endorsements of other celebrated party members to boost support (see coattail effect)

For the political term, see coattail effect.

Murphy's victory was credited to a coattail effect from Barack Obama's election in 2008.

Another is a "coattail play" - a company that benefits peripherally from changing demand patterns related to technological changes.

He scanned the faces of the other coattail riders, the middlemen who fed off his bounty.

Honor' slowly looked down at his coattail, which was indeed smoldering at the edge of the stove fire.

There is also the "negative coattail" effect, in which an controversial Presidential candidate may hurt candidates on the party's ticket running for lower offices.

She walked down 70 dark flights of stairs, holding onto the coattail of a man in front of her.

On the defense side, there is what lawyers call the danger of the "coattail" or "spillover" effect in mob-action cases.

Meanwhile, Hamlin was now visibly and sharply tugging at Johnson's coattail.

"If there's a real problem tonight," he went on, reaching beneath his right coattail, "we can escort the parties to the barracks separately.

Tao Ni, silent until now, caught at his coattail and chattered at him.

Democrats generally saw major successes during the 2008 congressional election, credited in part to a coattail effect from Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Amritsar seemed a prosperous place, with a paucity of paupers, though a sufficient number existed to get on my coattail.

They occasionally flapped open a coattail to allow a glimpse of an AK-47 assault rifle.