The task force used GPS tracking and informants to put salt on someone's tail until they could make the arrest.

When one worked one's tail off on a project, it was easier to feel proud of the final result.

One works one's tail off to pay the bills and still finds time to volunteer on weekends.

One can't keep working one's tail off forever without a break.

While watching the rugged coastline, we were thrilled to see a white-tailed sea eagle swoop down and snatch a fish from the waves.

Tail between one's legs, she left the stage after admitting the error.

A white-tailed blue flycatcher perched on the mango tree outside our window, singing boldly at dawn.

The fork-tailed bush katydid perched on the goldenrod, its call blending into the late-summer chorus.

When she found out she had won the scholarship, she was like a dog with two tails, dancing around the living room.

Elliot's short-tailed shrew forages near fallen logs at dusk, using its acute sense of smell to locate earthworms.