lick one's wounds

lick one's wounds retire to recover one's strength or confidence after a defeat or humiliating experience （失败或受辱后）休养生息, 养精蓄锐, 恢复元气： the political organization he worked for was licking its wounds after electoral defeat. 他所在的政治组织在竞选失利后正在休养生息, 以图恢复元气。

• someone's jaw drops a mile
• plant hormone
• claymores
• bring sth into line with sth
• factor eight
• Arcturus
• go shit in your hat
• divisa
• character displacement
• faddism
• riverweed
• reformable
• high words
• equatorial plate
• bidirectionality
• vleiland
• emblematic art
• Malay Peninsula
• portolani
• incompetency
• moving-boundary electro-phoresis
• boddhisattvas
• phiz
• mesalliance
• anaplasmas
• arrive make a decision
• tank transporter
• Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
• Fourier synthesis
• dislimn
• overrigid
• Chaco
• Raphidae
• semipsychic
• hexametral
• disgustedly
• money player
• day boys
• 10-k
• double-tongued
• cannibalises
• miniaturizing
• go off patent
• bogyman
• solidities
• misroutes
• keratoscopy
• anyone
• precipitation ceiling
• phosphorus salt
• rhynchophorous
• workwise
• reifications
• reinversion
• learn ... by rote
• garran
• adaptively
• Folies-Bergere
• take some doing
• back and belly
• excubitorium
• lie at the heart / centre / root of sth
• churadas
• English sole
• come for sb / sth
• Iraqi Dinar
• fish hook
• appersonation
• gossip columns
• the good man of the house
• crystal unit
• journeyman
• converses
• excess-fifty code
• zo-
• beneficence
• but what
• to someone's disadvantage
• filter down effect
• bodles
• say no more
• Margarodinae
• be up to strength
• house rat
• bull runs
• get wind of
• Pac-Man
• smilings
• merge and purge
• bowdrill
• major scales
• variation diagram
• phylogenetically
• Arhynchobdellae
• color gradients
• self-incrimination
• subterraneousness
• like streaks
• ingrainedness
• make a run for it