"ride on the back of" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> on the back of"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet)",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make use of; to take advantage of."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_on_the_back_of-en-verb-H7tEN8UU",
      "links": [
        [
          "make use",
          "make use"
        ],
        [
          "take advantage of",
          "take advantage of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To make use of; to take advantage of."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "on the back of"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride on the back of"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden on the back of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> on the back of"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "on the back of"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet)",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make use of; to take advantage of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make use",
          "make use"
        ],
        [
          "take advantage of",
          "take advantage of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To make use of; to take advantage of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride on the back of"
}