介绍:
1）Wear something like a badge of honor
-The White community of Hong Kong has worn the offensive term "Gweilo" (which is the Cantonese term for ghost) like a badge of honor. Hong Kong-Briton writer Martin Booth famously titled his autobiography, Gweilo.
-Obama and his supporters have turned the offensive term for the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, into a badge of honor.
-When Queen Cersei got slapped by King Robert Baratheon, she said that she would wear the bruise like a badge of honor. King Robert told her "Wear it in silence. Or I will honor you again."
Definition: To reinterpret something said to be negative about oneself into something positive, thereby negating the harm the word does.
Etymology: The earliest use was in the 16th century to describe a medal.
Examples:
A. If she has been working on making me step down or leave, I would simply wear it like a badge of honor and join another company that I have been secretly working in for years.
B. She has been dumped by many men. But now she has been wearing her unpopularity to the opposite sex like a badge of honor, telling people that she is married herself for a good cause and has no time for men.
2) Ride on one's coattails
-It seems that Sean Lennon has done nothing besides riding on his famous father's coattails.
-It is better for people not to ride on their parents coattails; otherwise they will end up like Jaycee Chan.
-Sometimes riding on someone's coattails is positive. Bruce Lee was able to become a child star because his father was already a famous actor in Hong Kong.
Definition: To use your connection with someone successful to achieve success yourself.
Etymology: Riding on someone's coattails comes from the fashion of a tail on a man's coat. Children could easily grab the coattail and ride along.
Examples:
A. Like it or not, he realized that he had been riding on his father's coattails all his life and whenever he thinks about this he feels so depressed.
B. The later generations of the family have been riding on their forefathers' coattails since they were the pioneers who went to America during the gold rush and accumulated wealth.
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