LEFT IN THE LURCH

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LEFT IN THE LURCH

Specialty Definition: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Domain	Definition
Literature	Left in the Lurch Left to face a great perplexity. In cribbage a lurch is when a player has scored only thirty holes, while his opponent has made sixty-one, and thus won a double. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Failure	Wide of the mark; (error); out of one's reckoning; (inexpectation); left in the lurch; thrown away; (wasted); unattained; uncompleted.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Specialty definitions using "LEFT IN THE LURCH": Brandy Nan ♦ Leave in the Lurch. (references)

Commercial Usage: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	The Addams Family: Left in the Lurch (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Anagrams: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-h-i-l-l-n-r-t-t-u"
	-5 letters: fettucine, intellect, intercell, lenticule, unfertile.
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Alternative Orthography: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 46 54 49 4E 54 48 45 4C 55 52 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000110 01010100 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001100 01010101 01010010 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#70 &#84 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#76 &#85 &#82 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0046 0054 0049 004E 0054 0048 0045 004C 0055 0052 0043 0048

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4639405424348254423924655523742

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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