with your tail between your legs

with your tail between your legs
with your tail between your legs informal phrase
ashamed or upset because you have been defeated

We’re going to send them home with their tails between their legs.

Thesaurus: feeling ashamed or embarrassedsynonym feeling sad or unhappysynonym
Main entry: tail

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with your tail between your legs — see tail, 1
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Main Entry:leg
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with your tail between your legs
: with a feeling of being embarrassed or ashamed especially because you have been defeated

He lost the fight and went home with his tail between his legs.

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Main Entry:tail

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with your tail between your ˈlegs idiom
(informal) feeling ashamed or unhappy because you have been defeated or punished
Main entry:tailidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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