go away empty-handed
уйти ни с чем, с пустыми руками
I wasn't able to get an English-English dictionary in the book store, so I went away empty-handed.
Другие идиомы:
- wring (someone's) hand
- one's hands are tied
- on the other hand
- first hand
- get one's hands on (someone or something)
- bite the hand that feeds (someone)
- have a free hand (to do something)
- live hand-to-mouth
- hand over (someone or something) to (someone)
- tie (someone's) hands
- hand-out
- change hands
- to be in hand
- hands off
- take a hand in (something)