| 单词 | in the lurch |
| 释义 | in the lurch (once / 7036 pages) adv If you leave you friend in the lurch, you've left her in a bad situation. If she was counting on a ride home after school and you forgot to wait for her, you left her in the lurch. When someone is left in the lurch, she's left needing help of some kind, usually abruptly and surprisingly. It's the perfect phrase to use when a person is counting on assistance that doesn't come. This kind of lurch has an entirely different root from the lurch meaning "abrupt roll or tilt." This lurch comes from a sixteenth century game, lourche, and the situation in which one player loses by a wide margin — or is left in the lurch by the other. WORD FAMILYin the lurch USAGE EXAMPLES“Leaving millions of people in the lurch without insurance” is what Republicans will be doing if they repeal the Affordable Care Act. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) Palace bosses gave Pulis the £2m on 12 August and the day after "he dropped the bombshell on the club" leaving them "in the lurch". BBC(Nov 28, 2016) Kurt’s defense is, naturally, an all-out attack on the beltway hypocrites and self-serving elites who have left the white working class in the lurch. Los Angeles Times(Oct 31, 2016) adv in a difficult or vulnerable position he resigned and left me in the lurch |
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