“抱大腿”，指借助他人的优势来获得收益的行为，特别指弱者主动去借助强者的优势，与英文习语“ride one's coattails”意思相近，表示“to use someone else's success as a means to achieve one's own”。
“大腿”往往指有权有势的对象，因此“抱大腿”也可翻译为“latch onto the rich and powerful”。
- 众所周知，过去两年你一直在抱州长的大腿，但她的任期一结束，你就只能靠自己了。
Everyone knows you've been riding the governor's coattails for the last two years, but once her term ends you'll be on your own.
