go away empty-handed

All little ones were welcome, and never a one went away empty-handed.

And for those who go away empty-handed this time, there is word of new awards to come.

Death had visited him twice that night and gone away empty-handed.

But if he rejects it, both players go away empty-handed.

The offering was sold out by noon, and many went away empty-handed.

And the whole chorus of loving relatives would have to go away empty-handed.

Then that winner takes home a prize, and the contestant goes away empty-handed.

"But you've never gone away empty-handed, now have you?"

Because if you do you'll go away empty-handed.

Irestone asked many questions, including how I persuaded the gunmen to go away empty-handed.

"Since my intuition never disappoints me, I knew that when the police turned up, they would not go away empty-handed.

So we are really going away empty-handed.

Graduates who attend them seem to be becoming increasingly fatalistic that they will go away empty-handed.

No final contestant has ever gone away empty-handed.

But Hollywood will not go away empty-handed.

And total anonymity was demanded, so the waiting Press and television crews went away empty-handed.

Oh, they went away empty-handed," said Turcaill with dour satisfaction.

However, the citizen with a well-founded complaint which is inadmissible, does not usually go away empty-handed.

And if you are so full that you can't eat another bite, you won't go away empty-handed.

They did not go away empty-handed.

No one goes away empty-handed or unfed.

After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.

We fund major companies which then relocate from one Member State to another, while small and medium-sized enterprises go away empty-handed.

Well, he wasn't going away empty-handed.

OFTEN, the attorneys general don't go away empty-handed, either.