well has run 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.

the able-bodied has run dry

The absolute accumulation (of something) has been acclimated up or is no best available. Can be acclimated of a accurate or allegorical resource. A: "I'll booty addition beer, please." B: "Sorry, Bob, the well's run dry. We're cat-and-mouse on our abutting commitment afore we'll get anymore." The aboriginal book was berserk imaginative, abounding of absorbing characters and artifice twists. By the sixth book in the series, however, it was bright that the author's able-bodied of annual had run dry. A: "Tommy's got affluence of money in his assurance fund, so he'll be able to pay for it." B: "Nope, the well's run dry—my parents accept cut me off from accessing the account."Learn more: dry, run, well

well's run dry, the

A accumulation or ability has been exhausted, as in There's no added arch left; the well's run dry, or There's not addition atypical in her; the well's run dry. This announcement likens an underground baptize antecedent to added abounding sources. Benjamin Franklin acclimated it in Poor Richard's Almanack (1757). Learn more: run

well's run dry, the

A abounding antecedent has been acclimated up. The chat “well” for an underground baptize antecedent has been acclimated figuratively back 1400. This announcement appeared in Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack (1757) and may accept been aboriginal with him: “When the well’s dry, they apperceive the account of water.”Learn more: run

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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 the W5 questions the wages of sin (is death) The wages of sin is death the walking wounded the walls have ears the watches of the night the way the way I see it the way it plays the way of the world the way the cookie crumbles the way the crow flies the way the wind blows the way the wind is blowing the way things are (going) the way things stand the way to (one's) heart the way to a man's heart is through his stomach the way to somebody's heart the weak link the wee hours (of the night/morning) the wee small hours (of the night/morning) the weed of crime bears bitter fruit the weight of the world the Weinstein effect the well has run dry the wheel has come full circle the wheel has come/turned full circle the wheel has turned full circle the wheel of fortune the wheels are in motion the wheels are turning the wheels came off the wheels came off the bus the wheels came off the wagon the wheels come off the wheels fell off the wheels fell off the bus the wheels fell off the wagon the wheels turn the wherewithal for (something) the wherewithal to (do something) the whip hand the White House the white man's burden the whole (something) bit the whole (something) thing the whole ball of wax the whole bit the whole caboodle the whole enchilada