high and dry 的定义
- Stranded, as in They walked out on the party, leaving me high and dry. This expression originally alluded to a ship that had run aground or was in dry dock. Its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.
high and dry 近义词
abandoned and helpless
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- Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
- Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.
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- The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
- In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
- The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them.