coat-tails

That gentleman was standing with his back to the fire , and his hands under his coat-tails , looking over his white cravat , as unpromisingly as Mr Dombey himself could have looked .

那位先生背对着壁炉站着，手抄在燕尾服里面，从白领带上面看着前面，那种严厉可怕的神色只有董贝先生本人才能有。

She got where she is today on her brother 's coat-tails .

她倚仗她兄弟的声望爬上了今天的位置。

They accused him of riding on the coat-tails of the president .

他们指责他是沾了总统的光。

Washington is today offering New Delhi a free ride on its coat-tails .

如今，美国也为印度提供了免费沾光的机会。

He caught hold of my coat-tails and pulled me down by main force .

他抓住我的上衣后摆，用力把我拽倒。

And smoothing them to its body as if they had been coat-tails ;

把翅膀向身上拉平，好像翅膀是它礼服的后摆；

No such frustration for United with Ferguson happy with a victory that keeps his side on the coat-tails of runaway leaders City .

不过曼联和弗格森心情不错，这场胜利让他们紧紧咬住领头羊的尾巴。

Scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoothing them to its body as if they had been coat-tails ;

它又用后腿拨弄翅膀，把翅膀向身上拉平，好像翅膀是它礼服的后摆；

and there , bolt upright , sat old Bildad , who always sat so , and never leaned , and this to save his coat-tails . His broad-brim was placed beside him ;

比勒达老头就笔直地坐在那里，他总是这般坐法，从来不稍侧斜，为的是不致压坏他的衣裾。他那顶阔边帽子放在身边；

Josh McFarland , another ex-Google staffer now running data-marketing company TellApart , dismisses backbiters who say Ms Mayer rode on the coat-tails of Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Google 's co-founders .

如今在经营数据营销公司TellApart的谷歌前员工乔希•麦克法兰（JoshMcFarland）对那些背后嚼舌头、认为梅尔不过是搭了谷歌联合创始人拉里•佩奇（LarryPage）和谢尔盖•布林（SergeyBrin）顺风车的人很是不以为然。