Definition of "on the coattails of" []

• Caused by, or immediately following (an event). (noun-plural)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Today you can board an airliner in Miami and step off within hours in the central Amazon; you can fly out to the Galápagos, connect with a cruise ship, and wander the individual islands on the coattails of a licensed guide; you can book an “adventure travel package,” that oxymoronic commodity, to Antarctica; you can even reach Krakatau, cinderlike Krakatau, for a handful of rupiahs paid to a Javanese fishing-boat captain."