coat-tails

New offensive term for a parasitic person who rides your coat tails and claims your hard work as their own

Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were coat-tails to each other, Barack Obama continued Hillary Clinton's failed foreign policy 2012-16, and she ran for president in 2016, only to try and continue his failed social policies

Covid Coat-tails

Claiming you have had COVID-19 based on being around or in close contact with a person who’s had COVID-19 to reap the financial and emotional benefits.

Oh Steven? His wife Sally had COVID-19... he’s just riding her covid coat-tails to try to make her buy him things and feel for him. He’s a douche