leave someone high and dry Idiom, Proverb

bone dry

very dry, as dry as an old bone Someone had drained the pool. It was bone dry.

dirty laundry

personal problems, mistakes, scandals I don't want the public to see my dirty laundry - my worst moves.

dry out

stop using alcohol, on the wagon She's drying out at a treatment centre. It's a four-week program.

dry run

complete rehearsal, walk through Let's do a dry run of our play so I can add the background music.

dry up

stop talking, be quiet I wish he'd dry up. He talks too much.

hang you out to dry

defeat you, convict you, throw the book at If you're caught shoplifting, they'll hang you out to dry.

high and dry

stranded, out of the current of events They left him high and dry when they moved the company to Europe.

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you do not appreciate some things until they go away or become extinct Now we have only memories of of our song birds. You don't miss the water till the well runs dry.

dry off

（cause to）become dry变干；弄干
Dry yourself off thoroughly after swimming，or you might catch cold．游泳之后要把身体擦干，否则可能感冒。

leave high and dry

Idiom(s): leave sb high and dry

Theme: ABANDONMENT

to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless.(Informal.)
• All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
• All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.

leave (one) aerial and dry

1. Literally, to acquiesce one to abide dry and artless by water, about flood waters. We get some appealing bad storms about here, but the bank has consistently larboard us aerial and dry, acknowledge goodness.2. To leave one in a bearings in which one has little adventitious of artifice or improving. You absolutely larboard me aerial and dry back you forgot to aces me up aftermost night. I had no way of calling or accepting home! The abandonment of several key advisers has larboard the business aerial and dry.Learn more: and, dry, high, leave

leave addition aerial and dry

COMMON If addition or article leaves you high and dry, they leave you in a difficult bearings which you are clumsy to do annihilation about. I won't leave this club aerial and dry. I'll still be actuality at the end of the season. Schools with bigger reputations will be abounding with applications while poorer schools will be larboard aerial and dry. Note: The angel actuality is of a baiter which is larboard on a bank afterwards the course has gone out. Learn more: and, dry, high, leave, someone

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leave sb out in the cold leave sb in the lurch leave sb in peace leave sb holding the bag leave sb flat leave oneself wide open for leave one to one's fate leave high and dry leave hanging in midair leave for dead leave a lot to be desired leave a bad taste in one's mouth least of all learn to live with learn sth the hard way leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing to the imagination leave of absence leave off leave on leave one cold leave one to fate leave one to own devices leave oneself wide open for leave open leave open the possibility of (something or doing something) leave out leave out in the cold, to leave out of leave over leave somebody cold leave somebody holding the baby leave somebody in the lurch leave somebody to it leave somebody to their own devices leave somebody/something in the dust leave somebody/something standing leave somebody/something to the mercy/mercies of somebody/something leave someone alone leave someone cold leave someone high and dry leave someone in peace leave someone in the lurch leave someone or something standing leave someone to his or her resources leave someone to their own devices leave someone/something out in the cold leave something in its/his/her wake leave something to be desired leave the door open leave the door open for leave the door open for (something or doing something) leave the field clear for (one) leave the field clear for somebody leave the field open for (one) leave the nest leave the room leave to leave to (one) leave to chance leave to it leave to own devices leave to someone's own devices leave to someone's tender mercies leave to twist leave up