leave sth in your wake
to go somewhere new, leaving problems, confusion, etc. behind you, that you have caused:
Soldiers rampaged through the town, leaving chaos in their wake.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
After & behind
- after
- back
- back end
- background
- backside
- be hot on sb's track/trail idiom
- behind
- bring
- bring up the rear idiom
- hard/hot/close on sb's heels idiom
- heel
- hot
- in back of idiom
- in hot pursuit idiom
- nose
- nose to tail idiom
- posterior
- rear
- wake