Idiom
hang out to dry
Meaning
To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He left me to hang out to dry when the boss got angry.”
“When the project failed, my partner blamed me and left me to hang out to dry.”
“Despite their long history of collaboration, the politician left his loyal aide to hang out to dry as the scandal unfolded.”
Examples
simple
“He left me to hang out to dry when the boss got angry.”
contextual
“When the project failed, my partner blamed me and left me to hang out to dry.”
complex
“Despite their long history of collaboration, the politician left his loyal aide to hang out to dry as the scandal unfolded.”
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