hanging out to dry

  • 1hang out to dry — hang (someone) out to dry to not support or help someone. After losing the election, the party is going to hang him out to dry. Etymology: based on the practice of hanging an animal that has been killed in a tree so its meat can dry …

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  • 2hang out to dry — verb a) To attach washing to a clothesline to dry. Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry. b) To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent …

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  • 3hang someone out to dry — hang (someone) out to dry to not support or help someone. After losing the election, the party is going to hang him out to dry. Etymology: based on the practice of hanging an animal that has been killed in a tree so its meat can dry …

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  • 4Dry cleaning — (or dry cleaning) is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a chemical solvent other than water. The solvent used is typically tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), abbreviated perc in the industry and dry cleaning fluid by the… …

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  • 5Dry-boarding — is a technique intended to gain the cooperation of interrogation subjects through inducing the first stages of death by asphixiation.[1][2][3][4] Unlike waterboarding, where a wet cloth is placed over a supine subject s airways, so their… …

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  • 6dry — 1. adjective 1) the dry desert Syn: arid, parched, droughty, scorched, baked; waterless, moistureless, rainless; dehydrated, desiccated, thirsty, bone dry Ant: wet 2) …

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  • 7Dry cell — A dry cell is a galvanic electrochemical cell with a pasty low moisture electrolyte. A wet cell, on the other hand, is a cell with a liquid electrolyte, such as the lead acid batteries in most cars.While a dry cell s electrolyte is not truly… …

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  • 8hang out — verb spend time in a certain location or with certain people She hangs out at the corner cafe • Derivationally related forms: ↑hangout • Hypernyms: ↑frequent, ↑haunt • Verb Frames: Somebody s …

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  • 9hang out — phrasal verb Word forms hang out : present tense I/you/we/they hang out he/she/it hangs out present participle hanging out past tense hung out past participle hung out 1) [intransitive] to lean out of a window so that the top part of your body is …

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  • 10Mutha's Day Out — Background information Genres Alternative metal, Rap rock, Post hardcore …

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