"leave someone high and dry" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leaves someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leaving someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He just walked out and left her high and dry with two kids and a mortgage.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 76, 77",
          "text": "When the Met first reached Chesham, in 1889, the townsfolk thought the growth of their town would be inexorable as a result. [...] The cry went up 'At last, we are on the main line!' And so they were - for three years, until the Met decided to carry on to Amersham, leaving Chesham high and dry on a branch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment."
      ],
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        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
        ],
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "leave someone in the lurch"
        },
        {
          "word": "leave to one's own devices"
        },
        {
          "word": "leave someone hanging"
        },
        {
          "word": "hang out to dry"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "hängenlassen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "afíno amanáti",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "αφήνω αμανάτι"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "dejar tirado"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "dımdızlak ortalıkta bırakmak"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "leave someone high and dry"
}

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "leaving someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left someone high and dry",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "leave someone in the lurch"
    },
    {
      "word": "leave to one's own devices"
    },
    {
      "word": "leave someone hanging"
    },
    {
      "word": "hang out to dry"
    }
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        {
          "text": "He just walked out and left her high and dry with two kids and a mortgage.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 76, 77",
          "text": "When the Met first reached Chesham, in 1889, the townsfolk thought the growth of their town would be inexorable as a result. [...] The cry went up 'At last, we are on the main line!' And so they were - for three years, until the Met decided to carry on to Amersham, leaving Chesham high and dry on a branch.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment."
      ],
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        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
        ],
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hängenlassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "afíno amanáti",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "αφήνω αμανάτι"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "dejar tirado"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "dımdızlak ortalıkta bırakmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leave someone high and dry"
}