OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 58605

emptyhanded

Meanings (ES + gloss)
con las manos vacías
Having received or acquired nothing.
"Have you got anything, my dear? If you are emptyhanded, go emptyhanded." But the shopper said, "Sisters, stop teasing him, for by God, he served me well today; no one else would h…
Returning "emptyhanded" doesn't always mean that you didn't get what you set out for.