OXFORD 9000
📚 phrase • entry_id 52023

tail between one's legs

Meanings (ES + gloss)
con el rabo entre las patas • con el rabo entre las piernas • con la cola entre las patas • con la cola entre las piernas
Defeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner.
"I wouldn't do that," said Mrs. MacAndrew. "I'd give him all the rope he wants. He'll come back with his tail between his legs and settle down again quite comfortably."
He came back home, tail between his legs.
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