leave someone high and dry

(idiom) to leave someone in a difficult position

Example Sentences:

When Karl got into a fight with his girlfriend at the movie theatre, he got in his car and left her high and dry. She had to take a taxi home!

When the skytrain stopped running, I was left high and dry because I couldn’t get home!

From the Blogs:

Pensioners left high and dry on the buses

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Similar idioms:

1. any port in a storm
2. cooped up
3. on one’s high horse
4. reek to high heaven
5. leave it to me
6. take it or leave it
7. run across