with your tail between your legsEMBARRASSEDembarrassed or unhappy because you have failed or been defeated 〔因失败或被打败而〕夹着尾巴,垂头丧气with your tail between your legs• They got scared and ran away with their tail between their legs.• He knows he can not come back with his tail between his legs.• I would go out of the Chamber with my tail between my legs.• And that is when the toughest Bruin team in years sent the Huskies home with their tails between their legs.• Pottz wiped out three waves in a row and crept back in with his tail between his legs.
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