Brewer's: 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: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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Left-handed Oath
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