leave in the lurch
Example Sentences
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“The majority’s rule will leave in the lurch the many states, private parties and legal researchers who relied on the previously bright-line rule” between statutes and annotations, he wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2020
It’s not just prisoners whom private prison contractors leave in the lurch, though.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2016
Poor Miss Planta, meanwhile, I was forced to leave in the lurch; for I could not propose the bed-room passage to my present company, and she was undressed and unpacking.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny
To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Peel not there, having hopped off to Staffordshire, to the great disgust of his party, whom he never scruples to leave in the lurch.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
