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cut adrift
Idioms and Phrases
Separated or detached; freed. For example, The dissenters were cut adrift from the denomination . This expression alludes to cutting the rope of a floating vessel so that it drifts without direction or purpose. The figurative use of adrift dates from the late 1600s.Example Sentences
Newcastle finished 11th in the Premier League, 14 points clear of the relegation zone after being cut adrift when Howe came in.
Despite a miserable run of form, Leicester are by no means cut adrift in the table.
Diallo was speaking about United's previous two results, which Amorim admitted before the game had come with a counter-attacking tactic United simply could not deploy at Old Trafford against a side that had won just once previously in the league, and were cut adrift at the bottom of the table.
Plymouth may be bottom of the table with 18 points, but they are far from cut adrift, just four points from Hull City in 21st.
Ukraine isn’t the only beleaguered country Trump might cut adrift.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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