empty handed

基本解释

But anyone that tried to look further came out empty handed.
可是，任何试图深入了解的人都空手而归。
But after he made payment, he placed the items back on the shelves, walking out empty handed.
但是在买好以后，他把买到的东西又放回货架，空手出来。
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.
如果他曾经到过我的单身汉藏身所，那么他很可能就是这样的一些家伙——不知道如何找到女孩子只有空着手回家。

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.