follow-my-leader

The attention paid to young artists in recent decades has grown increasingly disproportionate, for no good reason apart from the follow-my-leader media circus which keeps their antics before an increasingly bored and bewildered (if not downright cynical) public.

Closely guarded secret 2009

There was of course, as already touched upon, disputation, for all these men were original thinkers, not likely to follow-my-leader meekly or mouth the unthinking slogans of conventional wisdom.

Guilds and the Faith: An Introduction to The Guild State 2008

Now, you are perpetually saying that the states ought to be independent; but it is you yourselves who most of all stand in the way of independence — your first and last stipulation with the allied states being that they should follow you whithersoever you choose to lead; and yet what has this principle of follow-my-leader got to do with independent action?

Hellenica 2007

For awhile I found his speech difficult to follow; wherefore, silently I gazed at the sky, where the stars appeared to be playing at follow-my-leader.

Through Russia 2003

'We head back into Regent's Park and we'll play follow-my-leader all the way back to the house ...'

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

But no! Instead of surrendering tamely the inspired madmen in the cars ran amok and played a merry game of follow-my-leader up and down and round and through the ranks of the enemy, until they had fired off most of their ammunition.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

In hot weather it was pleasant enough to play hide-and-seek or follow-my-leader up and down the long alleys of cool white linen, and if a sudden gust of wind or some unexpected turn of the game set the wet sheets flapping in the children's faces, their senses were rather tickled than annoyed.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

At length, Gozlan, like Columbus 'sailors, having more than enough of the tramp, refused to play follow-my-leader any longer; and only after a long palaver was he dragged up one last narrow street dubbed variously the Rue du Bouloi, du Coq Heron, and de la Jussienne throughout its course.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

At Twyford Junction the amusing game of follow-my-leader will be played by four locomotives and a guard's van.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 Various

Far below over the tree tops cloud shadows and sunlight were playing some wonderful game of follow-my-leader; a hawk hung poised on tilting wings; and on the veil of mist that was the spirit of the brook where it cast itself from the ledge curved the arch of a rainbow.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various