left stranded

"I went to another team in Spain. The agent sorted the travel and everything, but when I got there, he blocked me. I didn't hear from him again and I was left stranded."

"We'll be left stranded in the streets with the kids."

He later said he would offer his presidential plane to pick up Colombian deportees to avoid them being left stranded and stateless.

Two astronauts were left stranded on the International Space Station in June after their Boeing Starliner capsule developed a potential fault, which would have made returning to Earth in it too dangerous.

South Africa were guilty of letting the game drift at times, but recovered to wrap up the tail promptly, with Dean left stranded short of her fifty.