high-and-dry

But leaders are fooling themselves if they don't pay attention to the world of hurt going on among the recession's survivors -- the overworked, underpaid and frequently left high-and-dry among their ranks.

The accidental managers Jena McGregor 2010

Both MacLean and Wainwright had trouble handling the high-and-dry Colorado climate.

Michael Bialas: Folk U (Day 1): Ten Best of the Fest Moments 2010

Most were gone, crushed into debris or left high-and-dry in the marsh miles from their moorings by a 20-foot storm surge and 150-miles per hour winds.

The Long Road Ahead 2007

Most were gone, crushed into debris or left high-and-dry in the marsh miles from their moorings by a 20-foot storm surge and 150-miles per hour winds.

The Long Road Ahead 2007

During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, cops and National Guard went door to door in high-and-dry areas of New Orleans and did just that.

An oath to the Constitution, not the president 2009

The constitutional effects would be extremely tricky but the idea of Tony being left high-and-dry in the middle of his world tour is so appealing!

Six Weeks of Whitehall Paralysis Ahead 2007

It has also left the Welsh Conservatives high-and-dry.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

It does not propose simply taking their income away leaving them high-and-dry to defend themselves.

Outlaw Johns, Not Prostitutes 2005

Like Peregrine Jay, an hour earlier, he looked down at the Thames and he thought how closely this case clung to the river, as if it had been washed up by the incoming tide and left high-and-dry for their inspection.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

We have already referred to the high-and-dry doctrines of _laissez faire_ then in the ascendant, and any real or permanent recovery of Irish agriculture was rendered practically impossible by England's adhesion to the doctrine of free imports, by the abolition of the Corn Laws, and by the crushing increase of taxation under Mr Gladstone's budgets of 1853 and the succeeding years.

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various