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Definition of In the lurch
1. Adverb. In a difficult or vulnerable position. "He resigned and left me in the lurch"
Lexicographical Neighbors of In The Lurch
Literary usage of In the lurch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"generalities and assumptions found in"the general run of physical treatises, so
that the student is left in the lurch just at the critical moment when he ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To leave in tAe lurch. To leave a person in a difficulty. In crib- bage a person
is left in the lurch when hit adversary has run out his score of ..."
3. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"... bowels in the defence of that Commonwealth, which never failed to leave their
allies in the lurch at the least faint appearance of advantage by it. ..."
4. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"... in the following arrangement : -the country gentlemen, if they get into it,
will certainly be left in the lurch. ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"'to leave in the lurch ' was derived from its use in an old game ; to lurch is
... The loser's stakes remained in the lurch, or he was left in the lurch, ..."
6. The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria by Charles Greville (1885)
"... Ministers—Peel's Liberality—The Hatti-sherif disavowed—The Bishop of Exeter
left in the lurch—Poor Law Amendment Bill—Lord Granville's Illness—Death of ..."
7. The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria by Charles Greville (1885)
"... Hatti-sherif—The Hatti-sherif disapproved by some Ministers—Peel's Liberality—The
Hatti-sherif disavowed—The Bishop of Exeter left in the lurch—Poor Law ..."
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