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It due today “…trying to ride glory on his coattail” is an example of a certain type of figurative language. What type of figurative language is it? What does it mean to ride someone’s coattails?
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“…trying to ride glory on his coattail” is an example of a certain type of figurative language.


What type of figurative language is it?


What does it mean to ride someone’s coattails?

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I do believe its an idiom
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The figurative language that this seems to be written is between a personification and an idiom.

Riding on someone's coattails means having a dependent success on someone else.

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