with one's tail between one's legs

A week in this place and you're back with your tail between your legs.

Why do you run from it with your tail between your legs?"

"You may now withdraw with your tail between your legs and leave us to our mining."

It is too much for you, so you come back here with your tail between your legs.

"Running away with your tails between your legs!"

Heard they butchered your gang and that you ran off with your tail between your legs.

Why, you pusillanimous piece of dirt, you'd run with your tail between your legs if I said boo!"

Especially after the way your pal Seaton dragged you out of here with your tail between your legs.

Instead, I would have sent you back to Chief Tamihana like a dog with your tail between your legs.

Go home to your city, Gibli; go home with your tail between your legs."

The SEALs were an honorable operation and not something you ran back to with your tail between your legs when you failed someplace else.

He also said it was better to have run and lost, while having vastly improved his popularity ratings, than to have left "like a cur with your tail between your legs."

Then you speak to me of "black operations" and "rogue agents" and I send you packing with your tail between your legs because I thought you'd gone too far.

And then of course you've got to go to your IT guy with your tail between your legs and say, uh, why can't I run the Martha's Vineyard mapping application?

"You mean to say you went through all this hassle, got Tanda captured, and came running back here with your tail between your legs, and you didn't even bother to pick up what you were trying to steal?"