tail between one's legs

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Defeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tail, between, one's, legs.

After losing the game, he walked away with his tail between his legs.

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Defeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner.

He came back home, tail between his legs.

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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tail, between, one's, legs.

Oft haue I ſeene a hot ore-weening Curre / Run backe and bite, becauſe he was with-held, / Who being ſuffer'd with the Beares fell paw, / Hath clapt his taile, between his legges and cride,

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