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单词 turn tail
释义 turn tail
phrasal
1. : to run away (as from danger or opposition)
 < might have to carry him out on a stretcher, but he wouldn't turn tail again — Hamilton Basso >
: retreat from a position
 < administration turned tail and ran — Elmer Davis >
2. : to turn one's back : abandon, forsake, reject — used with on or upon
 < fellows who turned their tails on the land — John Galsworthy >
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