dangle after
English
Verb
dangle after (third-person singular simple present dangles after, present participle dangling after, simple past and past participle dangled after)
- (dated) To hang upon importunately; to court the favour of; to beset.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction
- the presbyterians, and their clans of other fanaticks, or freethinkers and atheists that dangle after them, are as well inclined to pull down the present establishment of monarchy and religion
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction