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Definition of leave in the lurch
leave in the lurch
verb - transitive
- to leave someone in a bad situation.
You really left me in the lurch back there.
- See more words with the same meaning: to abandon, leave a person.
Last edited on Jul 18 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to abandon, leave a person': | |
| Definitions include: to fail to meet someone at a designated location. | |
| Definitions include: to skip a pre-arranged meeting, especially a date. | |
| Definitions include: to not follow through or to cancel last minute or with little notice. | |
| Definitions include: to defraud; "swindle". | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: See flake. | |
| Definitions include: excluded. | |
| Definitions include: to not do something out of fear; "chicken out". | |
| Definitions include: to leave an event or conversation. | |
| Definitions include: to leave behind. | |
| Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon. | |
| Definitions include: to abandon, to leave; "ditch". | |
Slang terms with the same root words
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Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
Other terms relating to 'leave': | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "absent without leave." | |
| Definitions include: an uncaring or uninterested retort; "talk to the hand". | |
| Definitions include: see leave (one) hanging. | |
| Definitions include: to abandon a person, without them having proper resources. | |
| Definitions include: to abandon a person after a crime has been committed, leaving them with incriminating evidence (literally) or blame (figuratively.) | |
| Definitions include: give it all you had at a particular activity. | |
| Definitions include: The same as ditto (British). | |
| Definitions include: to forsake a person who has placed their reliance or trust on you. | |
| Definitions include: to die. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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