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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
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frayed, left me in a lurch

Yesterday my nerves frayed for the reason that most of my posts went wrong.

She was with me when my relatives left me in a lurch.

Please correct these two sentences to me.
  

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User_gary Yesterday my nerves frayed for the reaso n that most of my posts went wrong. because She was with me when my relatives left me in a lurch. Fine Please correct these two sentences to me.

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  • User_gary Yesterday my nerves frayed for the reaso n that most of my posts went wrong.
  • because She was with me when my relatives left me in a lurch.
  • Fine Please correct these two sentences to me.
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User_garyYesterday my nerves frayed for the reason that most of my posts went wrong. because


She was with me when my relatives left me in a lurch. Fine


Please correct these two sentences to me.
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Hi,

my relatives left me in a lurch.

Just a minor note that I've always heard this idiom as my relatives left me in the lurch.

I like this old song -

There was I, waiting at the church,
Waiting at the church,
Waiting at the church;
When I found he'd left me in the lurch,
Lor, how it
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Thank you, Clive. I missed that! Of course it is "in the lurch". Emotion: geeked
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Perhaps this is a BrE/AmE difference? Or even regional within the US? I've always said "in a lurch." There are ten times as many google hits for "the" but not an insignificant number for "a."
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Hey, Barb -- I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "in a lurch" -- even in Pennsylvania! It's always "the" lurch. Maybe it's extremely localized!
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More likely just enough people (myself included) who didn't know the correct phrase and just it incorrectly. (I grew up in New York though, the place they stand "on" line, so who knows?)
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