ride on the back of
English
Verb
ride on the back of (third-person singular simple present rides on the back of, present participle riding on the back of, simple past rode on the back of, past participle ridden on the back of)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To make use of; to take advantage of.
- 2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):
- Residential C-banders have been, and will continue to ride on the back of commercial C-band technology. And with millions of dollars' worth of C-band birdies orbiting our planet, I believe it is highly unlikely the programming choices will become reduced.
- 2018 December 21, Sarah Boseley, Angela Giuffrida, Christian Davies, Angelique Chrisafis, Oksana Grytsenko, “Rightwing populists ride wave of mistrust of vaccine science”, in The Guardian:
- But now vaccine doubt is spreading faster and further than ever through social media, and populist rightwing politicians in Europe and the US are riding on the back of a wave of mistrust of vaccine science.
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