tail between one's legs
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tail, between, one's, legs.
Example Sentences
- "He came back home, tail between his legs."
- ""I wouldn't do that," said Mrs. MacAndrew. "I'd give him all the rope he wants. He'll come back with his tail between his legs and settle down again quite comfortably.""
- "He [John du Lys] told the city fathers that Charles VII had promised him a hundred livres but the Royal Treasurer, either misinformed or dishonest, had given him only twenty; so he was requesting the balance of eighty from the municipality. He got only twelve, and went off with his tail between his legs."
- "After 11 seasons set in Seattle[…] Frasier is returning to Boston, to reconquer his old Cheers-era stomping ground. “He left with his tail between his legs a little bit,” Grammer said in a recent interview."
- "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,"