He turned tail and ran from hard-won victory in Iraq.
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To ease the pain of adjustment he borrowed, until investors turned tail.
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"Many of the terrorists had turned tail and run away already," Erdogan said in a speech.
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"The second they saw Nazi flags, they should have turned tail," she said of such people.
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It has also turned tail or reduced its presence in other markets, including some cities in Germany.
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The fact that many hedge funds have turned tail makes the real money bid all the more important.
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Governor Christie has said of you, as soon as you felt the heat, you turned tail and run.
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It's time for sweet bay scallops, now the jellies have turned tail in the Sound and run away.
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Less than 24 hours later, after a hail of condemnation, they turned tail; even so their bungling was damning.
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Blessing the many options the Escape offered, I turned tail and headed for my favorite venue, the 5 o'Clock Somewhere Bar.
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Now, fortunately, we were able to stabilize the situation, and it was the current administration that turned tail and ran and destabilized the situation.
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A moment after locking gazes with Matsumura, the bull turned tail and ran to the furthest point of the arena and refused to attack him.
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WATTERS: Some people love you and then other people run scared like the two white women who turned tail and skedaddled out of the shot.
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When Rubio joined the Senate's "Gang of Eight" supporting immigration reform, conservative voters were so outraged that he later turned tail and abandoned the effort.
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BONDS BENEFIT Underscoring policymakers' fears for economic growth, New Zealand cut interest rates, becoming the first country in the developed world to do so since the Fed turned tail on policy earlier this year.
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Also, Asian shares turned tail on the first trading day of the new year as more disappointing economic data from China, the world's second-largest economy, darkened the mood and erased early gains in U.S. stock futures.
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Dany and her one remaining dragon smoked the hell out of the Iron Fleet, then terrified the Golden Company into immediate surrender (the commander Harry Strickland turned tail and ran immediately before quickly getting speared by Grey Worm).
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The indexes had climbed over 1.2 percent in early dealings as traders returned from a holiday and caught up to Thursday's global gains, but they quickly turned tail amid a fresh escalation in the U.S.-China trade dispute.
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The indexes had climbed over 0.713 percent in early dealings as traders returned from a holiday and caught up to Thursday's global gains, but they quickly turned tail amid a fresh escalation in the U.S.-China trade dispute.
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Attention is focused heavily on the state of world growth after the U.S. Federal Reserve turned tail on raising interest rates, lacklustre Chinese data and a danger of a chaotic Brexit that would hit the British and European economies.
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His ecelebrity cohorts have turned tail, including former men's rights activist Mike Cernovich, #TrumpCup creator and ex-Buzzfeed employee Baked Alaska, The Rebel mouthpiece Jack Posobiec, white nationalist and living meme Richard Spencer, and Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars fame.
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She turned pale — she laid the scissors down — she looked aghast for one moment at the transformed or possessed child before her — and then for the first time in her life Elizabeth Murray turned tail and fled — literally fled — to the kitchen.
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The surprise of the double charge proved too much for the undisciplined Zirid troops, who turned tail and fled, precipitating the rout of the remaining Kalbid troops. Before long the entire Muslim army had descended into a chaotic flight which the Norman cavalry, now regrouped, was able to exploit without mercy.
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He proceeded via Nicomedia, with only his horse and armor, unburdened by imperial luxuries. The emperor slept little and rested on the ground, earning him the admiration of his men. Upon catching sight of the approaching Byzantine banners and glittering armaments, the surprised Turks turned tail and fled. Manuel did not let up, pursuing them back to their lands.
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She headed toward Nagasaki and patrolled uneventfully until 23 April when she was detected by a patrol boat east of Asuseki Shima. Whale "turned tail at high speed and soon lost contact." She proceeded toward the Bonin Islands and made rendezvous with destroyer escort on 2 May. The following day, she entered Majuro for refitting and a three-day training period.
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The ball tore through, hit him in the forehead, and > bounced into some brush. There was a roar from the crowd and [West] took one > look and turned tail. To a man, the crowd had risen, gathered bats, sticks, > stones, and anything they could lay hands on and were in hot pursuit. He > vanished into some woods and didn't emerge until nightfall.
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When the Saudis appeared the Iraqi MiGs turned tail, but the Mirages pressed on. Captain Iyad Al-Shamrani, one of the Saudi pilots, maneuvered his jet behind the Mirages and shot down both aircraft. A few days later the Iraqis made their last true air offensive of the war, unsuccessfully attempting to shoot down F-15s patrolling the Iranian border.
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The enemy's gunboats commenced. Three shots were fired from the enemy before our gunboats got in to the line of battle. The enemy turned tail for retreat, but our gunboats and the Rams stopped their retreat before they got to the head of President Island. We captured and sank all but one and she may thank the Lord that they are human men on the Rams.
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Skull in Naturmuseum Senckenberg Platecarpus had a long, down-turned tail with a large dorsal lobe on it, steering flippers, and jaws lined with conical teeth. It grew up to long, with half of that length taken up by its tail. The platecarpine mosasaurs had evolved into the very specialized plioplatecarpine group by the end of the Cretaceous. The skull structure of Platecarpus is unique among mosasaurs.
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There was a roar from the crowd and [West] took one > look and turned tail. To a man, the crowd had risen, gathered bats, sticks, > stones, and anything they could lay hands on and were in hot pursuit. He > vanished into some woods and didn't emerge until nightfall. In telling the > story he was convinced that if they had caught him they would have killed > him.
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The two-man section noticed a group of 5 Yokosuka P1Y "Frances" bombers heading south towards the task group. They moved immediately to intercept, making overhead runs on the slower, comparatively ungainly twin-engine bombers. They knocked out 3 of the 5 with their first pass—two for Fleming and one for his wingman. There wasn't to be a second pass: the remaining Frances turned tail and ran.
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There were sandbag traverses every but high explosive shells frequently demolished them. Few German aircraft were to be seen, being outnumbered and outmatched but on one morning, the German troops were surprised to see a formation of aircraft fly towards the British lines. British aircraft appeared and shot down one of the aeroplanes and the rest turned tail. British air superiority was demonstrated when heavy mortars were brought up to bombard the German lines.
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The surviving attackers then turned tail, and the task force was thereafter unmolested as they sailed toward the Philippines to support the landings at Leyte. On 18 October, she launched planes against airfields and shipping at Laoag, Aparri, and Camiguin Island in Northern Luzon. Her planes struck the islands of Cebu, Panay, Negros, and Masbate, pounding enemy airfields and shipping. The next day, she retired toward Ulithi with Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Sr.'s TG 38.1.
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However, Chen Wu's unit was no match for Zhang Liao's and he was killed. Sun Quan was shocked by Zhang Liao's onslaught, and Xu Sheng and Song Qian's troops turned tail when they saw their commanders being killed or fleeing, and Pan Zhang killed two deserters.(璋身次在後，便馳進，橫馬斬謙、盛兵走者二人，兵皆還戰。) Chen Shou. Records of Three Kingdoms, Volume 55, Biography of Pan Zhang.
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Eventually the Turks, who had spies in the al-Husayn's army, were able to ambush their camp. Despite inflicting heavy casualties on the attackers, the Baghdadi army soon fell in disorder, and many of the soldiers were either killed or drowned in the Euphrates. The cavalry turned tail and fled, and when the officers realized that they had lost control of the situation they retreated as well. The Turks then plundered the enemy camp and rounded up the prisoners they had captured.
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Though heavily outnumbered, the Athenians—supported by their Plataean allies—defeated the Persian hordes at the Battle of Marathon, and the Persian fleet turned tail. Map showing events of the first phases of the Greco-Persian Wars. Delian League ("Athenian Empire"), immediately before the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC Ten years later, a second invasion was launched by Darius' son Xerxes. The city-states of northern and central Greece submitted to the Persian forces without resistance, but a coalition of 31 Greek city states, including Athens and Sparta, determined to resist the Persian invaders.
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On 8 May the squadron bagged its first kill in aerial combat. A flight was returning from a dive bombing mission over the rapidly shrinking enemy bridgehead in Africa when the pilots saw three Messerschmitt Bf 109s dive from out of the sun on the flight Leader, Captain Robert C. Dempsey. The Germans had the bad luck not to spot the rest of the flight, and when they turned to get Captain Dempsey they were pounced on by fourteen fighters. Two of the enemy planes turned tail and escaped, but one went down in flames.
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The Franks eventually marched out and drew up in battle lines after crossing a stream called the Geule, then began discussing forming parties to scout their enemy. In the midst of these discussions the Vikings’ scouts happened upon the Franks. The Frankish army pursued the scouts without waiting for instruction from their leaders, and eventually ran right into the assembled Viking infantry in a nearby village, which easily repelled the disorganized Frankish attackers. Once their cavalry had been drawn to the battle, the Vikings easily defeated the Franks, who turned tail and ran, only to be cut down by their Viking pursuers.
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Cadbury and Leckie, and another pilot Lieutenant Ralph Edmund Keys, then attacked and damaged another Zeppelin, which promptly turned tail and headed for home. All three received the Distinguished Flying Cross. A few days later, on 11 August 1918 Leckie took part in another operation over the North Sea. Zeppelins often shadowed British naval ships, while carefully operating at higher altitudes than anti-aircraft guns or flying boats could achieve, and out of range of land based aircraft, so the Harwich Light Cruiser Force set out with a Sopwith Camel lashed to a decked lighter towed by the destroyer HMS Redoubt.
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Most of the ships operated in the coastal waters from the Cambodian border around the south tip of Vietnam up north to Đà Nẵng. Supply ships from the Service Force, such as oilers, would bring mail, movies, and fuel. A significant action of Market Time occurred on 1 March 1968, when the North Vietnamese attempted a coordinated infiltration of four gun-running trawlers. Two of the four trawlers were destroyed by allied ships in gun battles, one trawler crew detonated charges on board their vessel to avoid capture, and the fourth trawler turned tail and retreated at high speed into the South China Sea.
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Sensing that his victorious Thebans could not outflank the enemy before the Athenian right broke into his rear, Pagondas chose to do something utterly unprecedented in the annals of Greek warfare. He called in a reserve force (the mere creation of which was itself unprecedented) of several hundred cavaliers to support the now decimated Thespians. The Athenians on the right were stunned by this—so much so that they apparently fell into a confusion and turned tail. This was perhaps fortunate for Pagondas's cavaliers, as Greek cavalry, made up of light-armed aristocrats without saddles or stirrups, was no match for a company of hoplites.
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