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turns tailphrasepresent tense third-person singular of turn tail to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningYou can't go around starting fights and then turning tail when they don't go your way. bolts, breaks, bugs out, flees, flies, hightails (it), retreats, runs, runs away, runs off, skedaddles absconds, clears out, decamps, elopes, escapes, gets (away), gets out, lams, lights out, makes off, mizzles(chiefly British), scarpers(British), scats, scrams, skips (out), skirrs beats a retreat, beats it, makes tracks beards, braves, confronts, dares, defies, facesabides, dwells, hangs around, lingers, remains, stays, sticks around, tarries |