turn tail — ► turn tail informal turn round and run away. Main Entry: ↑turn … English terms dictionary
turn tail — index retreat Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
turn tail — verb flee; take to one s heels; cut and run If you see this man, run! The burglars escaped before the police showed up • Syn: ↑scat, ↑run, ↑scarper, ↑lam, ↑run away, ↑hightail it, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
turn tail — verb To flee; to run away; to leave. He was the sort of man who, faced with the prospect of marriage, decided to turn tail and run rather than commit … Wiktionary
turn tail — informal to run away, usually because you are frightened. When I saw him my first impulse was to turn tail and flee … New idioms dictionary
turn tail (and run) — tv. to flee; to run away in fright. □ I couldn’t just turn tail and run, but I wasn’t going to fight that monster either. □ Sometimes turning tail is the only sensible thing to do … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
turn tail — phrasal to turn away so as to flee < turned tail and ran > … New Collegiate Dictionary
turn tail — Synonyms and related words: abscond, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, clear out, come about, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, elope, fetch about, flee, fly, fugitate, go AWOL, go about, heel, jump, jump bail, levant, make off, pivot, pivot … Moby Thesaurus
turn tail — informal turn round and run away. → turn … English new terms dictionary
turn tail — {v. phr.}, {informal} To run away from trouble or danger. * /When the bully saw my big brother, he turned tail and ran./ … Dictionary of American idioms
