Meaning of coat trailing | Babel Free

Examples

“In order to find out the class level as early as possible, a bit of coat trailing on the very first evening seems to be a good thing, provoking plenty of discussion and giving the tutor ample opportunity to study form.”

“My Lords, I should like to thank the noble Viscount for the way in which he has introduced the Bill. It was much less provocative and with much less coat trailing than the way in which it was introduced in another place.”

“He was commended for his work, and there is no suggestion that if he had eschewed all coat trailings his success would have been greater.”

“Elvira had spent several weeks 'coat trailing' through the South of France, spending time in casinos and expensive restaurants while maintaining her 'cosmopolitan cover as a society girl mixing in the very top circles', without so much as a sniff from German intelligence.”

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