high and dry

Example Sentences

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And he does not want to leave his clients high and dry should he die unexpectedly.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 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

Instead, my mistakes, self-doubt, insecurity, and wandering mind left me high and dry.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos