phrasal
: to tend one's injuries : recover from defeat
those gray silent ships which carried the war to the enemy … while the fleet licked its wounds — E.L.Beach
phrasal
: to tend one's injuries : recover from defeat
those gray silent ships which carried the war to the enemy … while the fleet licked its wounds — E.L.Beach
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012