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Synonyms & Antonyms of high and dry
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
- the inadequate supplies of vaccine left many people high and dry when the flu season arrived
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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“High and dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20and%20dry. Accessed 2 Aug. 2021.
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The first known use of high and dry was in 1727
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