It has also left the Welsh Conservatives high-and-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Both MacLean and Wainwright had trouble handling the high-and-dry Colorado climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Bialas: Folk U (Day 1): Ten Best of the Fest Moments] Reference

It does not propose simply taking their income away leaving them high-and-dry to defend themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlaw Johns, Not Prostitutes] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [An oath to the Constitution, not the president] Reference

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!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Weeks of Whitehall Paralysis Ahead] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Road Ahead] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accidental managers] Reference

A high-and-dry island: the Dutch province Flevoland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

But before they had gone fifty yards the high-and-dry land ended, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco] Reference

Queerest of all, he used to be a very high-and-dry Tory in his opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference

The plain high-and-dry men distrusted him as what they called a sophist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference

The old high-and-dry party and the evangelical party combined to bring out Mr. Round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference

London Rectors, and the like, who belonged to what was commonly called the high-and-dry school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference

At some point during the meeting with the Americans, the Israeli team was left high-and-dry for an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

So all of the counterfeit countries that the Europeans created were then left high-and-dry to fend for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

It was suggested in an AOLFanhouse column that one-and-dones are the way to end up high-and-dry in the NCAA Tournament.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

He felt suddenly he was stranded high-and-dry on a barren rock, with nothing at all any more in his world but his profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winding Paths] Reference

New York - already famous for its bridges - is making room for two new spans in a particularly high-and-dry spot: the rafters of.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

Pricing and availability were still unknown, leaving us high-and-dry, waiting for the wave of products to eventually stream into stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [HotHardware.com News Rss Feed] Reference

"Wouldn't you like to come, too?" she asked the men, rescuing them from the rather high-and-dry position in which this unexpected incident had left them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brimming Cup] Reference

Chalk it up to a new-school mentality or the constant Jay-Z-ification ( "I'm a business, man") of professional basketball, but former Cavaliers don't seem to care that LeBron left them high-and-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

The mineral crusts on high-and-dry formations in coastal caves of Majorca indicate that during the latest ice age, sea level briefly and inexplicably rose more than one meter higher than today's level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference

I had been viewing my destination across the sagebrush for so spun-out a time that (as constantly in Wyoming journeys) the emotion of arrival had evaporated long before the event, and I welcomed employment for my otherwise high-and-dry mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lin McLean] Reference

The good news here is that it's not thinking of leaving us high-and-dry with the story, just that it's thinking of entirely cutting the "episode" and "2" part from the previous installment in the franchise and going ahead straight to Half-Life 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Matvy Ilyitch used to speak with great respect of Guizot, and tried to impress every one with the idea that he did not belong to the class of routiniers and high-and-dry bureaucrats, that not a single phenomenon of social life passed unnoticed by him. ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XII] Reference

Then fold their tents and depart in the night - leaving all of their, too - customers high-and-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference

We've repeatedly left them high-and-dry (Did I heard the heroin industry in Afghanistan is now 90% of their GDP?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neo-cons Just Don't Get It] Reference

What a Duke calls -- ARGYLL the high-and-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893] Reference