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Julia Huong
2021-10-10 10:10
Leave for dead informal verb phrase
To abandon someone or something assuming they are dead, even though they are still alive.
Although the other members of firefighter team had left him for dead, he escaped the burnt house.
Mia is regretful about leaving Nancy for dead in the forest.
To abandon or disregard something because it is predicted to fail or is not essential enough to succeed.
They decided to leave the new website for dead because of lacking maintainance expense.
The director left the project for dead because he couldn't find the investors.
The inexplicable or concealed place or state indicates the afterlife.
To pour concrete over a dead body
1. Used to refer to a point where a process or an activity ends
2. Used to refer to a point where someone no longer survives; death
The verb "leave" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Do you see anything wrong?
If a person has the devil's own luck, he or she has extremely good luck.
A: Yesterday I won a $10 million lottery jackpot and today I won a car in a draw.
B: You have the devil's own luck.
