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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Behind

His tail extended all the while
Behind him like a rat-tail file.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

See behind, as doth the hunted hare.
—John Keats

Always behind, like a donkey’s tail.
—English Proverb