Tarred with the same brush All having the same shortcomings each as guilty as the next. (Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, 1861) It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters … will not take a leaf out of the same book. The figurative use of bandwagon dates from the early 1900s: Theory has it that as candidate-carrying wagons moved through a district, local politicos would literally jump aboard those of favorite candidates, thus publicly endorsing them. In the era of political barnstorming, bandwagons carried the parade musicians. Get on the bandwagon To support a particular candidate or cause, usually when success seems assured and no great risk is entailed often climb aboard the bandwagon. This term is rooted in card games such as bridge or setback where rules dictate that, if possible, a participant must follow suit, that is, play a card of the same suit as that which was led. A similar expression dealing figuratively with the feet of a revered person is big or large shoes to fill, implying that substantial effort will be required to meet the standards established by a predecessor.įollow suit To imitate or emulate to act in the same manner as one’s predecessor. ( Complaint of Scotland, 1549)Ī variation is walk in the footsteps. You are obliged to follow the footsteps of your predecessors in virtue. They’re like as a row of pins -Rudyard Kipling.
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