trail
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Related to trailed: brought out, harkening
trail (along)
(after someone or something)1. to drag along after someone or something. His pants were torn, and a piece of his trouser leg trailed along after him. His trouser leg trailed after him.
2. to follow along after someone or something. A little dog trailed along after Mary and Karen. Is that your dog trailing along?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
- a paper trail
- blaze a trail
- blaze a trail, to
- blaze a/the trail
- blaze the/a trail
- hit the road
- hit the sawdust trail
- hit the trail
- hot on (one's) tracks
- hot on (one's) trail
- hot on somebody's/something's tracks/trail
- hot on the trail
- hot on the trail of (someone or something)
- on (one's) trail
- on the trail
- on the trail of (someone or something)
- paper trail
- put (one) off the trail
- put off the track
- the sawdust trail
- throw (someone) off the trail
- trail
- trail (one's) coat
- trail after
- trail after (someone or something)
- trail away
- trail behind
- trail by
- trail by (something)
- trail off
- trail over
- trail over (something)
- trail your coat