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 More on Left in the Lurch from Fact Monster:
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