Turn Tail

Definition: Turn Tail

Turn Tail

Verb

1. Escape or flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!".

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Synonyms: Turn Tail

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Cowardice

Verb: quail; (fear); be cowardly; Adjective:, be a coward; Noun: funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away; (avoid); show, the white feather.

Regression

Turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home.

Crosswords: Turn Tail

Expression using "turn tail": To turn tail. Additional references.

Albanian

arratisem me vrull. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic). (various references)

French

s'enfuir. (various references)

German

Fersengeld. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פוך עורף, לברוח (escape, flee, fling off, get away, make haste, make off, run, run away, run off, scamper, take flight, take to ones heels), ל� וס (escape, flee, fly). (various references)

Hungarian

elmenekül (escape, flew, flown, run away, to break away, to crap out, to fly, to go south, to make off, to scuttle away, to scuttle off, to show a clean pair of heels, to take one's heels, to take to one's heels). (various references)

Pig Latin

urntay ailtay

Russian 

убегать (ran away, run, run away, take flight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dati se u bekstvo (skedaddle). (various references)

Spanish

volver la espalda a (give the cold shoulder, turn a cold shoulder to, turn one's back on), huir (abscond, avoid, escape, evade, flee, flight, fly, outbreak, run, run away, run off, shy away from). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rutilant.

-1 letter: titular.

-2 letters: lattin, nutria, ratlin, ritual, trinal, truant, urinal.

-3 letters: atilt, lunar, riant, rutin, taint, taunt, titan, trail, train, trait, trial, ulnar, ultra, unlit, until, urial.

-4 letters: airn, airt, alit, anil, anti, aril, aunt, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lint, lira, litu, luna, lunt, nail, nurl, rail, rain, rani, rant, rial, ruin, runt, tail.

+1 letter: ultrathin.

+2 letters: lustrating, lustration, naturalist, neutralist, neutrality.

+3 letters: anticruelty, antinatural, antitumoral, curtailment, elutriating, elutriation, gratulating, gratulation, lustrations, matriculant, naturalists, neutralists, nutritional, reluctating, reluctation, tranquilest, tranquility, triangulate, tribulating, tribulation, unstartling, utilitarian, voluntarist.

+4 letters: adulterating, adulteration, anticultural, articulating, articulation, curtailments, elutriations, futilitarian, gastrulating, gastrulation, gratulations, illustrating, illustration, inarticulate, instrumental, interfaculty, intertextual, malnutrition, matriculants, maturational, naturalistic, neutralistic, neutralities, reluctations, reputational, reticulating, reticulation, salutatorian, stridulating, stridulation, tranquillest, tranquillity, triangulated, triangulates, tribulations, triumphantly, ultradistant, ultraheating, ultraviolent, unflattering, utilitarians, voluntarists, voluntaryist.