Related Clues:

• Leave Vegas empty-handed
• Finish last
• Elude
• Finish fourth
• Admit defeat
• Shake off, as a shadow
• Take a beating
• Come in third
• Get trounced
• Emulate the hare
• Allow to go out of sight
• Back the wrong horse
• Take it on the chin, say
• Come out behind
• Elude on purpose