dejar tirado

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “to leave stranded”.

Verb

dejar tirado (first-person singular present dejo tirado, first-person singular preterite dejé tirado, past participle dejado tirado)

(idiomatic, transitive) to leave someone in the lurch, abandon, to give up

Further reading

“dejar a alguien tirado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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