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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 32. The adjective phrase today is
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high and dry. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
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If someone is in a high-and-dry position or left high and dry....Yeah. Left is to
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leave someone high drives probably the most common verb we use with it. If we
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kind of turn it into almost like an idiom to leave someone high dry. But high
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and dry is an adjective phrase by itself. that can be used with other verbs too. Okay.
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So left high and dry. He or she is stranded or unsupported or left in a situation which
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has little or no chance of improving from something. Then we could say you
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know somebody was left high and dry or somebody is in sort of a high and dry
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situation. Okay. Good. Let's continue. The origin of the phrase
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goes back to the late 1700s early 1800s around that time. To refer to a ship that
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ran aground. Yeah. You know when a ship goes too far in and it gets stuck in the
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water, gets stuck in a sand bank or something like that. And it can't get out
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or maybe it got damaged along some rocks that are near the coast that
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ran aground and it ends up stranded or stuck there . Oh ran aground or was in a
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dry dock , which of course implies that it is stuck or stranded. So this is the idea.
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This is the origin of where the phrase came from. All right. Let's look we got
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three examples here. Example number one. He walked out the door one day and left
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his wife completely high and dry to take care of six children without an income.
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Yeah. So in this case he probably even didn't give her a warning. He just disappeared
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one day. Just left, just up and abandoned. So really leaving her high and dry. Okay.
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Let's look at number two here. She just kicked me out of her car and left me
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high and dry along the side of the highway in the middle of the night. And yeah,
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maybe in the middle hardly any cars are going by. You're just walking
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on the side of the highway. You don't know exactly where you are. You got to get
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off an exit or something like that. Then we can say to leave somebody high and
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dry or somebody's in a high-dry position. Yeah. And number three here. In
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the movie "Castaway"... it's a little bit of an old movie now. Tom Hanks' character was
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stuck high and dry. So he could be stuck high and dry somewhere, on a deserted
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island. So an island where there was no people. Remember the plane crashed and he
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came down. He was in some sort of an inflatable light boat lifeboat and
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somehow it got to this island where nobody was living. Even in our modern
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times, he was stuck there for three or four years. You know, according to the
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story in the movie anyway, he was just ... he was really just deserted there or left
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there high and dry. He was you know, he was stuck there high and dry. Anyway, I
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hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.