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In the lurch   /ɪn ðə lərtʃ/   Listen
In the lurch

adverb
1.
In a difficult or vulnerable position.





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"In the lurch" Quotes from Famous Books



... with elaborate politeness, "nobody's going to leave me in the lurch. You're just going to quit, that's all, and I've got ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... arisen with Lowe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to the proper fee. Fitzjames was only anxious now to get the thing definitively settled on any terms and put down in black and white. The Government might go out at any moment, and without some agreement he would be left in the lurch. It was 'excessively mortifying, ... and showed what a ramshackle concern our whole system' was. Definite instructions, however, to prepare the bill were soon afterwards given. On December 20 he writes that the English Evidence Bill is getting on famously. He hopes to have it all ready before ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen
... ghost or a new one. He showed more of himself this time though. He had two arms and a veiled head out of the window. As soon as our crowd glimpsed it, they all fled quicker than we did last night. Those two students fell all over each other and left me in the lurch." ...
— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... monsters, beats The lands that feel the tropic heats, Surcharged with all that is gigantic. This person, feeling free To use the trope hyperbole, Had seen a cabbage with his eyes Exceeding any house in size. 'And I have seen,' the other cries, Resolved to leave his fellow in the lurch, 'A pot that would have held a church. Why, friend, don't give that doubting look,— The pot was made your cabbages to cook.' This pot-discov'rer was a wit; The iron-monger, too, was wise. To such absurd and ultra lies Their answers were exactly fit. ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... a pretty rough way you left me in the lurch. Those actions don't get a girl very far in ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


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