high and dry

The old high-and-dry party and the evangelical party combined to bring out Mr. Round.

The plain high-and-dry men distrusted him as what they called a sophist.

Imagine all this overlaid with a certain portliness of bearing, suggestive of the high-and-dry Oxford scholar.

Queerest of all, he used to be a very high-and-dry Tory in his opinions.