Question

Out of the given options, choose the option that correctly states the meaning of the given phrase/idiom:

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

Answer 1

The correct option is D to desert someone in his difficulties

'To leave someone in the lurch' means to not do for someone what you had promised you would do or to desert someone in difficult straits. E.g. He said that he would help me in completing the final exam course but he left me in the lurch. Thus, option D is the correct answer. Rest of the options are wrong.