Examples of 'turn tail' in a sentence
Meaning of "turn tail"
Turn tail: Idiomatic expression meaning to retreat or run away from a challenging or dangerous situation. It suggests the act of changing direction abruptly to escape or avoid a confrontation or threat
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- To turn away from someone or something, in preparation for running away; to reverse direction; to leave or flee.
How to use "turn tail" in a sentence
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You just turn tail and get.
Turn tail and head for home.
So you can turn tail and run.
He turn tail and ran like a coward.
You better turn tail and run.
Harry was not the type to turn tail.
Go ahead and turn tail and go home.
Send men who will not turn tail.
I do not turn tail before swine.
They have been forced to turn tail.
Let us turn tail and pack up.
Getting McCrane to turn tail.
I say we turn tail and bail while we still.
I am not gonna turn tail now.
You would turn tail if a jackrabbit jumped you.
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A man does not just turn tail and run.
Turn tail and run.
Just as i am about to turn tail and vamoose.
He might turn tail and run again after a couple of words.
Only the guilty turn tail and run.
We are interested in something that looks like victory if we do not turn tail.
Most people just turn tail and run.
And they turn tail and charge on their own lines.
Iolaus did not die so you could turn tail and run.
He would not turn tail at the first sign of trouble.
A bump on your head and you turn tail and runl.
You turn tail every time you're faced with an obstacle.
Double the lookouts and turn tail at every shadow of smoke.
I did not drop by to give you an advantage so you can turn tail and run.
Even cops will turn tail if they see this.
I have seen more than one of that breed turn tail and run.
You do not want to turn tail in front of your people?
They might growl if the person comes close or simply turn tail and disappear.
It 's not just going to turn tail with a few simple keystrokes.
We took all the casualties so the Marines could turn tail.
More than likely they will turn tail at the first shot.
One of us leaves this world before I turn tail.
If that happens, he will turn tail like he always did.
Did you really think that I was gonna turn tail.
Plus, you do not turn tail and run from the cops.
If we knock him out, the rest will turn tail.
They turn tail now, but you will get tail later.
Between her legs who did not turn tail when he might have.
She got me a decoration, and once she came near to making me turn tail.
I do not figure that white buffalds gonna turn tail at a little sprinkling of pee.
Let us turn tail and pack up . They will come.
So we are just going to turn tail and run?
Boom! and they turn tail and charge on their own lines.
You figure you can just turn tail and go?
Shall we all turn tail and go running back to Mommy and Daddy?
