tail between one's legs

短语
中文释义

英文释义

短语
  1. Defeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner.
    — He came back home, tail between his legs.
  2. 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,

词源

From the body posture of a dog that is worried or frightened.
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