Also tail away. Gradually decrease, fade, as in Fireworks have disappeared into the dark. [Mid-1800s] The Arab pricked his ears, viciously waved his long arched tail, and showed the whites of his eyes. The dog stood there, head and tail hanging down, as if ashamed to let so many of his enemies escape unscathed. It was not a worm that Mrs. Robin had found, but the hairless tail of Grandpa Taupe protruding from the ground. And there will be no work for Egypt to make the head or the tail, the one who bends or holds back. Aaron Paul could play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Although blood-splattered offices are banned, employees have promised to continue producing the magazine. The special election, into which Duke plunged, initially attracted little media attention.
A school security guard, Fred Lucas, said he was told the man was a drug dealer. A flock in the distance rumbled across the plain, and a few birds stirred uncomfortably among the trees. The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing timber from a construction site while he was off-duty.