empty-handed

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishempty-handedˌempty-ˈhanded adjective NONE/NOTHINGwithout getting what you hoped or expected to getreturn/come back etc empty-handed I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.Examples from the Corpusempty-handed• Hearing police sirens in the distance, the robber was forced to leave the bank empty-handed.• After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.• Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.• She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand, before he ran off almost empty-handed.• The day will end with a prize draw, but no-one will go home empty-handed.• Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.• More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen.• Unusually, the martial art of kali teaches the use of weapons first and empty-handed techniques last.return/come back etc empty-handed• I watched as he raced the length of the yard and came back empty-handed.• Soon, Banjo comes back empty-handed.• He came back empty-handed, then set off again with his son.

单词	empty-handed
释义	empty-handed From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishempty-handedˌempty-ˈhanded adjective NONE/NOTHINGwithout getting what you hoped or expected to getreturn/come back etc empty-handed I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.Examples from the Corpusempty-handed• Hearing police sirens in the distance, the robber was forced to leave the bank empty-handed.• After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.• Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.• She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand, before he ran off almost empty-handed.• The day will end with a prize draw, but no-one will go home empty-handed.• Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.• More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen.• Unusually, the martial art of kali teaches the use of weapons first and empty-handed techniques last.return/come back etc empty-handed• I watched as he raced the length of the yard and came back empty-handed.• Soon, Banjo comes back empty-handed.• He came back empty-handed, then set off again with his son.
随便看	at the opposite end of the scale/spectrum at the opposite end of the spectrum at the opposite extreme at the other extreme at the other/opposite extreme at the outset at the outside at the peak of at the peak of something at the periphery at the periphery at the periphery of at the pinnacle of at the pinnacle of something at the pit of your stomach at the push of a button at the push of a button at the races at the ready at the rear at the rear of at the risk of doing at the risk of doing something at the roadside at the same time