From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbask/bathe in somebody’s/something’s (reflected) glorybask/bathe in somebody’s/something’s (reflected) gloryFAMOUSto share some of the importance and praise that belongs to someone close to you → glory
Examples from the Corpus
bask/bathe in somebody’s/something’s (reflected) glory• And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory. % % % Overreaction?• She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.• His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.• A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.• I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.• Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book. 