high and dry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
Abandoned, stranded, helpless.
Associated with the high church (the Church of England and other Anglican traditions, in reference to their "high" political position in England and "dry" and austere mode of worship), as opposed to the "low and slow" Evangelical party and the "broad and shallow" Broad Church.
With no condiments.

En-au-high and dry.ogg

high and dry

deserted forsaken abandoned derelict desert desolate discarded dropped forlorn high and dry left behind orphaned

hard-and-fast high and mighty leave to one's own devices

leave someone high and dry

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