tail away


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tail

noun
1. The hindmost part of something:
end, rear, tag end, tail end.
2. Something that follows or is drawn along behind:
trail, train, wake.
3. Informal. An agent assigned to observe and report on another:
shadow, watcher.
verb
Informal. To keep (another) under surveillance by moving along behind:
dog, follow, shadow, track, trail.
Informal: bird-dog.
phrasal verb
tail away or off
To grow or cause to grow gradually less:
abate, decrease, diminish, drain, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, peter (out), rebate, reduce, taper (off).
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He had a habit, Mary remarked, and she had never noticed it so clearly before, of letting his sentences tail away in a continuous murmur, whereupon he passed into a state of abstraction, presumed by his children to indicate some train of thought too profound for utterance.
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Jacob finished with 3-19 from his four overs and Tyler Ibbotson helped blow the tail away with 3-2 off 3.4 overs, the last wicket skittling Smethwick out for 61.
Shrewsbury ease through to T20 final; CRICKET
Teams who tail away at the end of a campaign can carry that form into the next one - just ask Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion.
Jekyll and Hyde show by United shows there is still much work to do; THE MATCH: Watford 2 Newcastle United 1 Vicarage Road
Teams who tail away at the end of a campaign can carry that form into the next one, just ask Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion.
Watford 2-1 Newcastle United analysis: Magpies show they are human, but tail-off has drawbacks; Newcastle United have taken their foot off the gas since securing Premier League safety, but they could do with one final push

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