English-Portuguese translations for turn tail

• meter o rabo entre as pernas
  É, de facto, um ultraje a esta câmara, uma vergonha para o Parlamento, vir aqui meter o rabo entre as pernas e eximir-se a responsabilidades, como o senhor Comissário Kinnock veio fazer. It does in fact dishonour Parliament and is an insult to this House to turn tail and evade responsibility, as Mr Kinnock is now doing.

Definition of turn tail

• To turn away from someone or something, in preparation for running away; to reverse direction; to leave or flee

Related words

• turn taking
• turn tail and run
• take a turn for the better
• take a turn for the worse
• take a turn
• turn the tables
• talk out of turn
• turn to one's advantage
• take turns