夹起尾巴 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 夾起尾巴 jiāqǐwěiba ㄐㄧㄚ ㄑㄧˇ ㄨㄟˇ ˙ㄅㄚ to tuck one's tail between one's legs fig. to back down in a humiliating situation Character by character 夹(jiā)press from either side 起(qǐ)rise 尾(wěi)tail 巴(ba)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0