04-08-10
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Supposedly, it's a bad thing to leave someone "high and dry". Which sort of implies that it's much better to leave them low and wet.
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I think I'd rather be high and dry.
Posted on April 8, 2010 09:24 AM
Comments:
I probably would too. But the big thing is WHERE I've been left.
Posted on April 8, 2010 11:59 AM![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.geekman.ca/nav-commenters.gif)
I get the impression that the idiom has this unspoken assumption that "you are a fish", but that's hardly something I go around assuming day-to-day.
Posted on April 8, 2010 12:14 PMI think it makes more sense if you're in a boat :3
Posted on April 8, 2010 09:37 PMIt depends on who you say this too as well, then the reverse would be "sober and wet"
Posted on April 9, 2010 11:51 AMBut doesn't "dry" also imply sobriety?
Posted on April 9, 2010 03:40 PMOooh! Oooh! I know this one! It originally applied to sailors being shipwrecked and stranded... And left to die show, horrible, agonizing deaths...
Posted on April 17, 2010 12:05 AM