Question

Choose the correct meaning of the given phrase.

"To leave someone in the lurch"

• A. To come to compromise with someone
• B. Constant source of annoyance to someone
• C. To put someone at ease
• D. To desert someone in his difficulties
• E. none of these

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

To desert someone in his difficulties

Option D is the correct answer because the phrase 'to leave someone in the lurch' means to abandon or desert someone in difficult straits.

Options A, B and C are incorrect because these are not the correct meanings of the given phrase.

Option E is incorrect because the correct answer has already been chosen.