leave in the lurch, to 관용구

a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

leave someone in the lurch

Fig. to leave addition cat-and-mouse for or anticipating your actions. Where were you, John? You absolutely larboard me in the lurch. I didn't beggarly to leave you in the lurch. I anticipation we had canceled our meeting.Learn more: leave, lurch

leave in the lurch

Abandon or arid addition in difficult straits. For example, Jane was affronted abundant to abdicate after giving notice, abrogation her bang-up in the lurch. This announcement alludes to a 16th-century French dice game, lourche, area to acquire a lurch meant to be far abaft the added players. It after was acclimated in cribbage and added games, as able-bodied as actuality acclimated in its present allegorical faculty by about 1600. Learn more: leave, lurch

leave in the lurch, to

To carelessness or arid addition in a difficult position. This acutely slangy avant-garde appellation dates from the sixteenth aeon and is believed to appear from a French dicing bold alleged lourche, similar to backgammon. To acquire a blunder at aboriginal meant to be larboard far behind, a acceptation that survived in several added games, including cribbage. By the aboriginal seventeenth century, however, the announcement had been transferred to any affectionate of abandonment, and was so acclimated in Richard Tarton’s Jests (1611): “Ile leave him in the blunder and about-face for my selves.”Learn more: leave

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a new lease on life a notch below a nut case A-OK a pack of lies a pain in the ass a pain in the butt a paper trail a party to that a pat answer a penny for your thoughts a penny pincher a perfect stranger a pick-me-up a picture is worth a thousand words a piece of ass a piece of cake leave alone leave an impression leave around leave aside leave behind leave cold leave down leave flat leave for leave for another occasion leave for dead leave for some place leave go leave go (of something) leave go of leave good (enough) alone leave hanging leave high and dry leave holding the bag leave home leave in leave in a body leave in hands leave in peace leave in the lurch leave in the lurch, to leave it at that leave it be leave it out leave it to leave its mark leave little to the imagination leave lots to be desired leave mark on Leave me alone! leave much to be desired leave no stone unturned 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