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:
- in hand
- caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
- try one's hand (at something)
- hand down a decision
- go hand in hand (with something)
- have a free hand (to do something)
- play into (someone's) hands
- by the handful
- wash one's hands of (someone or something)
- have one's hands full (with someone or something)
- glad hand (someone)
- live hand-to-mouth
- take the law into one's own hands
- hand down (something)
- win (something) hands down