high and dry
Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
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Does the fine print leave them high and dry at the end of 3-5 years like the ICE contract?
Switch to pension portal delays payment to 2.5 lakh beneficiaries in Punjab https://www.europesays.com/ie/471099/ Around 2.50 lakh government pensioners in Punjab have been left high and dry as their pension for April…
The kid on the right who turned away, as if looking for help, when the Creep in Chief said "these are sick people." We're all leaving that kid, and all the kids, high and dry with every day that passes without stopp…
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Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."
“The kid on the right who turned away, as if looking for help, when the Creep in Chief said "these are sick people." We're all leaving that kid, and all the kids, high and dry with every day that passes without stopping this.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(idiom) , stranded, helpless.
"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."
“Does the fine print leave them high and dry at the end of 3-5 years like the ICE contract?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Switch to pension portal delays payment to 2.5 lakh beneficiaries in Punjab https://www.europesays.com/ie/471099/ Around 2.50 lakh government pensioners in Punjab have been left high and dry as their pension for April…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(pejorative, idiom) Associated with the high church (the Church of England and other Anglican traditions, in reference to their "high" political position in England and "dry" and austere mode of worship), as opposed to the "low and slow" Evangelical party and the "broad and shallow" Broad Church.
"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform."
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