tails
/teɪlz/ noun A2- The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar. · Tails, I win.
- Tailings; waste.
- Tailings, feints.
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He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience.
Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying down to pull the tails of the animals that had no wings, chasing birds, and throwing nuts at the people who walked in the forest.
It’s heads I win and tails you lose.
“I fancy that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his coat-tails.”
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