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cast adrift

Idioms  
  1. see cast loose.


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Since being cast adrift, the Beavers and Cougars have played their cards exactly right.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

But they petition to confront the challenge, to find humane solutions so that locals who would offer sea-farers protection aren't cast adrift.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023

The structure he found had been cast adrift following the inferno of brutal war, and left largely abandoned during four decades of cold division.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2023

Senate has yet to vote whether to confirm him as ambassador to India — have City Hall watchers wringing their hands about a metropolis being cast adrift.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Some final invisible mooring line snapped, and she was cast adrift.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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