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{
"form": "hangs out to dry",
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},
{
"form": "hanging out to dry",
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"ref": "1989, Kurt Cobain (lyrics and music), “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana",
"text": "I'll take advantage while / You hang me out to dry",
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},
{
"ref": "2008 March 7, Joe Fiorito, “Our home-care system hangs families out to dry”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2008-12-02",
"text": "Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 January 25, Clare McNeil, “Don't hang young people out to dry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "It's hard to avoid the conclusion that young people are being hung out to dry.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent."
],
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent."
],
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"_dis1": "56 44",
"word": "twist in the wind"
},
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"_dis1": "56 44",
"word": "hang out"
},
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"_dis1": "56 44",
"word": "leave someone high and dry"
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"word": "leave someone hanging"
}
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "أن تترك شخصا في حاجة"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "遺棄"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yíqì",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "遗弃"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1",
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"roman": "bǎ mǒurén kēngkǔ le",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "把某人坑苦了"
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"_dis1": "99 1",
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"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "使某人處於困難"
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"roman": "shǐ mǒurén chǔyú kùnnan",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "使某人处于困难"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "jättää oman onnensa nojaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "laisser en plan"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "im Regen stehen lassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "hängenlassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "stendere per asciugare"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "zostawić kogoś na lodzie"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "deixar na mão"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostávitʹ na proizvól sudʹbý",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "оста́вить на произво́л судьбы́"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "desamparar"
}
]
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out, dry."
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"word": "hang out"
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"ref": "1989, Kurt Cobain (lyrics and music), “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana",
"text": "I'll take advantage while / You hang me out to dry",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 March 7, Joe Fiorito, “Our home-care system hangs families out to dry”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2008-12-02",
"text": "Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 January 25, Clare McNeil, “Don't hang young people out to dry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "It's hard to avoid the conclusion that young people are being hung out to dry.",
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent."
],
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"word": "leave someone hanging"
}
],
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out, dry."
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"translations": [
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "أن تترك شخصا في حاجة"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "遺棄"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yíqì",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "遗弃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǎ mǒurén kēngkǔ le",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "把某人坑苦了"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "使某人處於困難"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ mǒurén chǔyú kùnnan",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "使某人处于困难"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "jättää oman onnensa nojaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "laisser en plan"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "im Regen stehen lassen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "hängenlassen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "stendere per asciugare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "zostawić kogoś na lodzie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "deixar na mão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ostávitʹ na proizvól sudʹbý",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "оста́вить на произво́л судьбы́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abandon someone in need",
"word": "desamparar"
}
],
"word": "hang out to dry"
}
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