Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is hang someone out to dry and its meaning is “to leave someone (especially a colleague or dependent) in a difficult situation when he/she needs help; abandon, dump, desert”.
Example Sentence: Theresa May and Boris Johnson let the former chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins and other civil servants hang out to dry after they became “targets for political attacks”, an investigation into Whitehall’s role in the Brexit drama of the past four years has found. (the British government is called as ‘Whitehall”).
This phrase is present in The Guardian article May and Johnson hung civil servants out to dry, report finds and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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