come/go away empty-handed
придти \ уйти с пустыми руками
I wanted to buy an English-English dictionary but went away empty -handed.
Другие идиомы:
- all thumbs
- armpit of (somewhere)
- bite one's nails
- closefisted (with money)
- control (someone) with an iron fist
- cross (someone's) palm with silver
- elbow (someone) out of (something)
- someone's fingerprints are on (something)
- give (someone or something) the thumbs up
- grease (someone's) palm
- hang on by one's fingernails
- hard on (someone's) heels
- iron fist in a velvet glove
- itchy/itching palm
- lose one's grip