| 单词 | turn tail |
| 释义 | turn tail (once / 9555 pages) v WORD FAMILY turn tail: turned tail, turning tail, turns tail USAGE EXAMPLESThe does turned tail when I moved, and trotted down the hill. Washington Post(Nov 07, 2016) The company that popularized the 140-character message has been the subject of takeover discussions that soured, with suitors like Salesforce.com turning tail. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) If you meet their threat with a more significant threat, they turn tail and run. New York Times(Aug 27, 2016) v flee; take to one's heels; cut and run Syn|Hypo|Hyper break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods flee, fly, take flight run away quickly skedaddlerun away, as if in a panic breakmake a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing stampederun away in a stampede abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run offrun away; usually includes taking something or somebody along elope, run offrun away secretly with one's beloved break loose, escape, get awayrun away from confinement high-tailretreat at full speed defect, desertdesert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army go away, go forth, leave go away from a place |
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