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go away empty-handed

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go away empty-handed
Fig. to depart with nothing. I hate for you to go away empty-handed, but I cannot afford to contribute any money. They came hoping for some food, but they had to go away empty-handed.
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5) Host Lindsay Lohan didn't go away empty-handed, winning the award for breakthrough female.
Thus, the Appellate Division, while not deciding how plaintiff's damages should be measured, remanded this case back to the Supreme Court for a determination of those damages with instructions that creativity be exercised by the court in enabling these damages, to be calculated with some degree of certainty so that plaintiff, who has been clearly damaged, should not go away empty-handed.
With all the great things going on in Chicago, it was next to impossible to go away empty-handed - especially so for Roger Beverage, president of the Oklahoma Bankers Association, Oklahoma City.
 
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