with your tail between your legs

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   feeling ashamed or unhappy because you have been defeated or punished

   I can't go back in there with my tail between my legs.

   Glad Teddy's not here to see me running away -with my tail between my legs.

In the movies · 2

• I can't go back in there with my tail between my legs.Something the Lord Made2004
• Glad Teddy's not here to see me running away -with my tail between my legs.Who Framed Roger Rabbit1988

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• top and tail
• tail away
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