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

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