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Jimmy Hung
2021-10-01 12:10
To leave one high and dry British American phrase verb informal
This idiom has both literal and figurative meaning.
The tide went out and left us high and dry.
A lot of his employees quit at the same time and left him high and dry.
I was left high and dry as the company moved to another country.
His wife took all the money out of the bank and left him high and dry.
When you experience extreme and undesirable situations, it is probably essential to take extreme actions
Manage to earn enough money to buy food and other essential things
To begin to decline or deteriorate decline; to get worse very quickly
Starting of the idiom is a verb, we need to conjugate tense for the verb.
This phrase is a nautical term which derives from a ship being left grounded on a low tide. The captain was helpless to resolve his situation until the tide returned and re-floated his ship.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. To punch a hole in one's ticket to show that they have paid for a ride
2. To do something that allows one to go further in a competition or to be promoted at work
1. Please, tell me if I forget to punch your ticket.
2. With a view to punching my ticket to the final, I did whatever it takes to win this round.
