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 Translation for 'empty handed' from English to Polish
ADJ   empty-handed | more empty-handed | most empty-handed
z pustymi rękami {adv}empty-handed
Partial Matches
leworęczny {adj}left-handed
praworęczny {adj}right-handed
beztreściowy {adj}empty
próżny {adj}empty
opróżnić [dok.]to empty
opróżniać [niedok.]to empty
być mańkutemto be left-handed
uczciwy {adj}clean-handed [honest]
zool.T
gibon {m} białoręki [Hylobates lar]
white-handed gibbon
puste gniazdo {n}empty nest
wolne miejsce {n}empty space
pusty żołądek {m}empty stomach
w połowie pusty {adj}half-empty
puste siedzenie {n}empty seat
coś zostało przekazane ...sth. was handed over ...
idiom
złapać [dok.] kogoś na gorącym uczynku
to catch sb. red-handed
handelinternet
Twój koszyk jest pusty.
Your basket is empty.
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Usage Examples English
  • He once drove from Canada to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania hoping to find a ride in an event, but he went empty-handed.
  • Leaving empty-handed, Ted and Danny plan to return.
  • Early Spanish explorers considered the island of little value, partly because the poor soil made growing crops difficult and partly because their attempts to find gold turned up empty-handed.
  • Although she operated near a suspected U-boat concentration in the waters off Bermuda, the Q-ship and her two subchasers had no contacts and returned to New York empty-handed on 30 December.
  • This fighting strategy allows quick and unpredictable counterattacks, the ability to focus on more than one adversary and to face empty-handed an armed adversary.

  • In the wake of Operation Anaconda, relations between US and UK forces on the ground soured when "Stars and Stripes," the magazine for American forces and their families, openly criticized the Royal Marines for returning "empty-handed" from their search for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters claiming that Britain's contribution to the campaign was "disappointing."
  • Although the squad came away empty handed, they set the second fastest time ever by a British squad.
  • However, in later styles of jujutsu from Edo-period Japan empty-handed strikes to the body became more common as full-scale military engagement began to decline.
  • He considers turning back, but he decides that he could not face Cummings empty-handed.
  • "Nice try", said Richardson, as he sent Ringer back to the "Daily News" empty-handed.

  • Odysseus was sent to Thrace to return with grain, but came back empty-handed. When scorned by Palamedes, Odysseus challenged him to do better. Palamedes set out and returned with a shipload of grain.
  • When they returned to Pilz empty-handed, he sent them back to the Juneau area.
  • In 2005, zoological journalist Richard Freeman of the Centre for Fortean Zoology mounted an expedition to hunt for the death worm but came up empty-handed.
  • The possibility of going home empty handed saddened him.
  • Adam finds the old man involved in the shooting of a historical film on his estate and comes away empty-handed.

  • King Edgar sided with Leofric and Leofleda, and actually sent soldiers to ensure that the Cornishmen went home, empty-handed.
  • In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during the Ituri conflict, Ugandan-backed rebel groups were accused by the UN of enslaving Mbutis to prospect for minerals and forage for forest food, with those returning empty handed being killed and eaten.
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