video
Thư viện
Tài trợ
"Hang on your coattails" nghĩa là gì?
25 Feb, 2020
Photo by daniel kalman
"Hang on (one's) coattails" = Bám váy/đuôi áo ai -> Chỉ người ăn bám người khác, ăn ké/hưởng lợi từ người khác; lợi dụng sự thành công của người khác để đạt mục đích của mình.
Ví dụ
It all depends on how a person feels when they see an actor with an entourage (những người tuỳ tùng, vùng lân cận) of those they either trust or use as crowd control, but on a personal note it seems like it would be better to be able to to just hang out alone or with a couple of friends rather than have those that are determined to hang on your coattails and enjoy the ride.
To know a powerful man’s character, find out who his enemies (kẻ thù) are. Flatterers (người tâng bốc, xu nịnh) and opportunists (người cơ hội) will hang on his coattails; his opponents are a surer path to truth. The loudest opponent of the Dutch diplomat Frans Timmermans in the race to become the next president of the European Commission is Hungarian strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban insists that picking Timmermans would divide the European Union between East and West. This is blackmail (mail đen, mail tống tiền) and bluff (lừa bịp). Anyone who wants the EU to succeed must ensure that Orban’s gambit (bước đầu (trong công việc)) fails.
Winning that title was another great feeling of mine. I wanted to become the undisputed world champion (nhà vô địch thế giới vô đối thủ, được công nhận/không bị tranh giành). The third guy (WBA titlist Julio Cesar Vasquez) wouldn’t fight me and this other guy Paul Vaden was having an affair with (ngoại tình với) my ex-wife and that’s why we had all of the anger and animosity (hận thù). This guy would come into the gym and hang on my coattails and all along he was trying to screw (giao cấu) my wife. He acted as though he wanted to be my friend and hang around me. So I was angry going into the fight and even building up to the fight. I would catch her coming from his apartment; me being a Gemini, I was very snoopy (rình mò), the way I would snoop around and investigate. I was a real private investigator. I was following her around and would catch her going to his place. I was just so upset, so pissed off that she was doing this to me with a guy that boxed. I would have been hurt if it had been somebody else, some other stranger, but it was a guy who was trying to be my friend and you know, wanted to be a champion, the type of champion I was at that point.
Ka Tina
Bài trước: "Hang in the balance" nghĩa là gì?
Tags: phrase
Post a Comment