return empty-handed

I will make ready to cook venison, for you never return empty-handed.

The child returned empty-handed because the signature on the check was forged.

When the others returned empty-handed I'd give them hell and go home with a nice self-satisfied feeling.

Maybe I won't get a deer; it wouldn't be the first time a hunter returned empty-handed.

Despite this surprise attack, no fighting took place and the Muslims returned empty-handed.

In truth, she had been sure Dyelin would return empty-handed.

And why, indeed, had he set out yet again, after returning empty-handed from a day's hunting?

Denied food aid by the white authorities, Taylor must return empty-handed to his church.

He let her roam in search of small game once a week until the day she returned empty-handed.

After much labor, the holes were ready, but the hunting party returned empty-handed.