Idiom
high and dry
Meaning
Abandoned, stranded, helpless.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My car broke down and left me high and dry.”
“When my business partner quit without notice, he left me high and dry with all the work.”
“The sudden collapse of the travel agency left hundreds of tourists high and dry in a foreign country without any way to return home.”
Examples
simple
“My car broke down and left me high and dry.”
contextual
“When my business partner quit without notice, he left me high and dry with all the work.”
complex
“The sudden collapse of the travel agency left hundreds of tourists high and dry in a foreign country without any way to return home.”
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