Usually means: Fled or retreated from fear.
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  1. turned tail: Merriam-Webster
  2. turned tail: Vocabulary.com
  3. turned tail: Wiktionary
  4. turned tail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. turned tail: Legal dictionary
  2. turned tail: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turned tail: Encyclopedia

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  1. turned tail: Idioms



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