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Left Lurch Leave Difficult Pay In The Loop 438 Abandon Situation

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Idiom LEAVE (SOMEONE) [GET LEFT IN] THE LURCH
Definition to abandon someone to a difficult situation, forcing him or her to take all the responsibility
Examples
  1. The builder hired several carpenters and electricians to work on the building, but he left them in the lurch when it came time to pay them.
  2. The company went bankrupt and the stockholders got left in the lurch. They had to pay all the outstanding bills.
  3. Where were you at four o’clock? I thought you were going to attend the meeting and help us with the difficult decisions that needed to be made. You shouldn’t have left us in the lurch like that.
Cross-Refs

Synonym: leave (someone) high and dry

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