empty handed

基本解釋

But anyone that tried to look further came out empty handed.
可是，任何試圖深入了解的人都空手而歸。
But after he made payment, he placed the items back on the shelves, walking out empty handed.
但是在買好以后，他把買到的東西又放回貨架，空手出來。
And If he ever was at one of my bachelor hide-aways he is probably one of those guys who just doesn't know how to pick up girls and went home empty handed.
如果他曾經(jīng)到過我的單身漢藏身所，那么他很可能就是這樣的一些家伙——不知道如何找到女孩子只有空著手回家。

U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell held six days of talks in the region last week trying to find a formula for resuming peace talks, but came up empty handed.
He said he feared that unless serious resources were spent over the next two months developing specific projects and numbers to justify the mitigation requests, the continent would leave the Copenhagen summit largely empty handed.
But none of the so-called November Nine will leave empty-handed.

But many people got there, had some free goat-cheese puffs, and went home empty handed.
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If you come away from somewhere empty-handed, you have failed to get what you wanted.