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Phrase(s): follow on (after someone or something) 1. Lit. to depart and arrive after someone or something. • I can’t leave now. I will have to follow on after the others. • I will follow on later. 2. Fig. to die at a date later than someone or a group. • She followed on after her husband a few years later. • He died in June and she followed on in August.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs