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:
- keep one's hand in (something)
- one's hands are tied
- wring one's hands
- get one's hands on (someone or something)
- hands down
- high-handed
- Many hands make light work
- hand in hand
- on the one hand
- take (someone or something) off (someone's) hands
- hands off
- eat out of (someone's) hand
- be hand in hand
- tie (someone's) hands
- bite the hand that feeds (someone)