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hang someone out to dry idiom disapproving to allow someone to be punished, criticized, or made to suffer in a way that is unfair, without trying to help them: They felt they had been hung out to dry by their employers. He said, "We will not let the media hang this man out to dry." SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Unhelpful and Uncooperative awkward awkwardly awkwardness balky deterrent non-cooperation non-cooperative obstructionism obstructionist obstructive pre-emptive stiflingly stultifying stultifyingly unaccommodating uncooperativeness under your feetidiom unforthcoming unhelpful unhelpfully
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