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hang someone out to dry

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  • hang someone out to dry — hang (someone) out to dry to not support or help someone. After losing the election, the party is going to hang him out to dry. Etymology: based on the practice of hanging an animal that has been killed in a tree so its meat can dry …   New idioms dictionary

  • hang someone out to dry — informal leave someone in a difficult or vulnerable situation. → hang …   English new terms dictionary

  • hang someone out to dry — informal leave someone in a difficult or vulnerable situation …   Useful english dictionary

  • hang out to dry — hang (someone) out to dry to not support or help someone. After losing the election, the party is going to hang him out to dry. Etymology: based on the practice of hanging an animal that has been killed in a tree so its meat can dry …   New idioms dictionary

  • hang out to dry — If you hang someone out to dry, you abandon them when they are in trouble …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • hang out to dry —    If you hang someone out to dry, you abandon them when they are in trouble.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Hang out to dry —   If you hang someone out to dry, you abandon them when they are in trouble …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • hang someone or something out to dry — hang (someone or something) out to dry see hang out at ↑hang, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑dry …   Useful english dictionary

  • hang out to dry — phrasal : to leave stranded in a hopeless or dangerous situation * * * hang (someone or something) out to dry see hang out at ↑hang, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑dry …   Useful english dictionary

  • hang out to dry — verb a) To attach washing to a clothesline to dry. Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry. b) To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent …   Wiktionary

  • hang — verb (past and past participle hung except in sense 2) 1》 suspend or be suspended from above with the lower part not attached.     ↘attach or be attached so as to allow free movement about the point of attachment.     ↘attach (meat or game) to a… …   English new terms dictionary

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