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:
- first hand
- give (someone) a free hand
- hand over (someone or something) to (someone)
- off one's hands
- sit on one's hands
- caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
- to be on hand
- take (someone or something) in hand
- fold one's hands
- hold out (one's hand)
- wring (someone's) hand
- dirty one's hands
- you've got to hand it to (someone)
- keep one's hands off (someone or something)
- all hands on deck