🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
⭐️#ABANDONMENT
✨Desert a sinking ship AND Leave a sinking ship ▶️ to leave a place, a person, or a situation when things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the first to leave a ship that is sinking.)
🔻I hate to be the one to desert a sinking ship, but I can't stand it around here anymore.
🔻There goes Tom. Wouldn't you know he'd leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?
✨Leave someone for dead ▶️ to abandon someone as being dead. (The abandoned person may actually be alive.)
🔻He looked so bad that they almost left him for dead.
🔻As the soldiers turned—leaving the enemy captain for dead—the captain fired at them.
✨Leave someone high and dry ▶️ to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless. (#Informal.)
🔻All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
🔻All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.
✨Skip out (on someone or something) ▶️ to sneak away from someone; to leave someone in secret. (#Slang.)
🔻I heard that Bill skipped out on his wife.
🔻I'm not surprised. I thought he should have skipped out long ago.
✨Walk out on someone ▶️ to abandon someone; to leave one's spouse.
🔻Mr. Franklin walked out on Mrs. Franklin last week.
🔻Bob walked out on Jane without saying good-bye.
✨Wash one's hands of someone or something ▶️ to end one's association with someone or something.
🔻I washed my hands of Tom. I wanted no more to do with him.
🔻That car was a real headache. I washed my hands of it long ago.
#Thematic_Dictionary
#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1
⭐️#ABANDONMENT
✨Desert a sinking ship AND Leave a sinking ship ▶️ to leave a place, a person, or a situation when things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the first to leave a ship that is sinking.)
🔻I hate to be the one to desert a sinking ship, but I can't stand it around here anymore.
🔻There goes Tom. Wouldn't you know he'd leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?
✨Leave someone for dead ▶️ to abandon someone as being dead. (The abandoned person may actually be alive.)
🔻He looked so bad that they almost left him for dead.
🔻As the soldiers turned—leaving the enemy captain for dead—the captain fired at them.
✨Leave someone high and dry ▶️ to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless. (#Informal.)
🔻All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
🔻All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.
✨Skip out (on someone or something) ▶️ to sneak away from someone; to leave someone in secret. (#Slang.)
🔻I heard that Bill skipped out on his wife.
🔻I'm not surprised. I thought he should have skipped out long ago.
✨Walk out on someone ▶️ to abandon someone; to leave one's spouse.
🔻Mr. Franklin walked out on Mrs. Franklin last week.
🔻Bob walked out on Jane without saying good-bye.
✨Wash one's hands of someone or something ▶️ to end one's association with someone or something.
🔻I washed my hands of Tom. I wanted no more to do with him.
🔻That car was a real headache. I washed my hands of it long ago.
#Thematic_Dictionary
#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1