Leave me high? leave me dry?
Hi!
Can you please help me understand the meaning of these expressions from Radiohead’s “High and dry”?
Especially the lines: “Don’t leave me high. Don’t leave me dry.”
Are they idioms? Do they have an original meaning in the English language? Leaving someone high? Leaving someone dry?
I believe that “high and dry” is an expression with a nautical meaning, but how about the other 2?
Thank you very much!
Top answer
org/wiki/leave_someone_high_and_dry ). "leave someone high" and "leave someone dry" are not normally separate expressions, but here, for reasons probably to do with the meter of the song, they have been split. g.
- org/wiki/leave_someone_high_and_dry ).
- "leave someone high" and "leave someone dry" are not normally separate expressions, but here, for reasons probably to do with the meter of the song, they have been split.
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- "high" can mean intoxicated).
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This derives from the expression "leave someone high and dry", meaning "To abandon somebody; to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leave_someone_high_and_dry). "leave someone high" and "leave someone dry" are not normally separate expressions, but h
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