Brooke in the lurch when he needed "coaching" for the election, and when there was so much canvassing, direct and indirect, to be carried on.
Do you think I forget your always coming home to sell and pocket everything, and going off again leaving us in the lurch?
Documents should not lurch line by line as you scroll through them, but instead should flow.
Leave someone in the lurch----leave an associate or friend abruptly and without assistance or support when they are in a difficult situation The word lurch in this phrase derives from the French lourche, which is the name of a game resembling backgammon.
""why,"replies the other, "it was no great secret, he only bid me have a care how I kept company with those who, when they get into a difficulty, leave their friends in a lurch.
In such situation, you are not suppose to leave the children in the lurch.
"You may have to work nights and weekends to ensure that you don't leave your current employer in the lurch, but it's worth a few hectic weeks of extra effort, because it shows them you care.
" It said if Iran — a powerful member of the producers' group — moved quickly to offer its oil under attractive terms and its Opec peers such as Saudi Arabia refused to "stay on the sidelines", prices could lurch lower.
My heart gave a sick lurch when I looked to Sohrab's bed and found it empty I called his name.
"You with your hundred arts are left in the lurch!
I'd have had you but for that there lurch, but I don't have no luck, not I; and I reckon I'll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like you, Jim.
I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle.
You with your hundred arts are left in the lurch.
