[DOC] [TLE] lurch - definition of lurch in English | Oxford Dictionaries [PAR] Leave an associate or friend abruptly and without assistance or support when 
they are ... Mid 16th century (denoting a state of discomfiture): from French 
lourche, the name of a game resembling backgammon, used in the phrase 
demeurer lourche be discomfited. ... About  Contact us  Privacy policy and legal 
notice  Help. [DOC] [TLE] Lurch - definition of lurch by The Free Dictionary [PAR] leave in the lurch, to desert when help is needed most. [152535; < Middle 
French lourche a game, n. use of lourche (adj.) discomfited < Germanic; compare
... [DOC] [TLE] Lurches | Define Lurches at Dictionary.com [PAR] verb (used without object) ... 1525-35; < Middle French lourche a game, noun use 
of lourche (adj.) discomfited < Germanic; compare Middle High German lurz left (
hand), Old English belyrtan to ... Aber Pringle he pull out mit himseluf, und I vas 
left in some lurches. ... leave someone in the lurch, to desert someone in trouble. [DOC] [TLE] lurch noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes ... [PAR] (informal) to fail to help somebody when they are relying on you to do so I'm sorry 
to leave you in ... She felt she had been left in the lurch by all her colleagues. [DOC] [TLE] World Wide Words: Left in the lurch [PAR] Sep 8, 2012 ... If you're 'Left in the lurch', what is it exactly that you're left in? ... The lurch one may 
be left in is actually from a sixteenth-century French gambling game. ... be in the 
lurch had appeared, meaning to be in difficulty and without assistance. After all, it 
wasn't the job of the other player to give any help to the loser. [DOC] [TLE] Word Games - American English [PAR] To help you, some letters have been placed .... + one = without anyone else 
present. 6. ? + one = a ...... in columns from the top left in the same order as the 
sen-. [DOC] [TLE] The works of Josephus with great diligence revised and amended ... [PAR] As soon as it was day, the Parthians plundered all that Herod left in Jerusalem; 
and ... But Herod was no ways discomfited with the greatness of those 
adversities which ... Herod answered them, That he repaired not into their 
Countrey to give them cause of any trouble, but onely to ... To report errors, 
contact DLPS Help. [DOC] [TLE] The betrayal and capture of Antioch during the First Crusade - people [PAR] Our nobles have richly outfitted the child, dressing him in the French style, with 
the .... strong begin to cry out: "Sir, grant them the truce, for God's sake, without 
delay." .... sent him to Garsion to tell him that help would arrive from the Persian 
empire .... He went --> -- back to the good duke of Boulogne, whom he had left in 
the... [DOC] [TLE] North and South (Gaskell novel) - Wikiquote [PAR] Mr. Thornton was a good deal more surprised and discomfited than she. ... but 
without any purpose in her observation; and he contrasted them uneasily with ..... 
'But how could I help it? ... I was civil; but I took no trouble to conceal my 
indifference. .... He could have struck her before he left, in order that by some 
strange overt... [DOC] [TLE] Edward, the Black Prince of Wales (1330-1376) [English History ... [PAR] Apr 30, 2007 ... Rumours of an impending French invasion led the king in August 1335 ... When 
the Genoese bowmen were discomfited and the front line of the French was ... 
Arundel for help, and he forced back the French, who had probably by ..... 
Gascon lords; the left, in which some German mercenaries marched with... [DOC] [TLE] Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, 1823-1886. A Diary from Dixie, as ... [PAR] This and other French names to be met with in this Diary are of Huguenot origin

Question: From the French for "discomfited", to be "left in" this is to be left in trouble without help
Answer: In the lurch