TO LEAVE ONE IN THE LURCH

Definition: TO LEAVE ONE IN THE LURCH

TO LEAVE ONE IN THE LURCH

1. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. --Denham. But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. --Hudibras.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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