high and dry
Example Sentences
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Only that department is set to get left high and dry once Saturday starts, but that’s still significant given its arms include the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026
"Social care has been left high and dry" by last year's NI changes, says John Paddick.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
But just now, the late spring weather forecast for temperatures and precipitation thereabouts looks hearteningly like the dramatic peninsula itself: high and dry.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
The picture built up, line by line, until with enormous relief we saw the footpad sitting high and dry above the Martian surface.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
