cut adrift

cut adrift

To abandon or set free. Likened to a boat having its mooring cut so that it drifts freely in the water. I think it's about time that we cut adrift the extremists of the party.
See also: adrift, cut
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cut adrift

Separated or detached; freed. For example, The dissenters were cut adrift from the denomination. This expression alludes to cutting the rope of a floating vessel so that it drifts without direction or purpose. The figurative use of adrift dates from the late 1600s.
See also: adrift, cut
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • adrift
  • be cut adrift
  • cut a fat hog
  • cut eyes at
  • cut eyes at (someone or something)
  • wouldn't cut hot butter
  • cut out for, to be
  • cut down to
  • cut (something) down to (something)
  • cut your peaches
References in periodicals archive
West Brom may appear like they are starting to become cut adrift, but the relegation dogfight remains wide open - and that should be considered a positive for Newcastle.
"But unless things pick up soon there's a danger they could become cut adrift. I just hope for the supporters' sake they can get out of this."
Sebastian Coates does not need to see the Premier League table to know Sunderland are "getting cut adrift".
Eddie Howe's men were cut adrift at the foot of the Football League in 2009 but only a virtually impossible swing in goal difference on the final day would deny the Dorset-born manager from clinching the third promotion of his managerial career with the Cherries.
Redknapp said: "There was a lot of pressure on the game today, when you are stuck at the bottom you know that if you don't win, even a draw, you come away and you are still cut adrift.
Marianne Cooper, the lead researcher for Sheryl Sandberg's bestselling book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," and author of the new book, "Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times." The event, with emcee WBNS 10TV's Tracy Townsend, will take place on Weds., Oct.
The cruise ship Lyubov Orlova has been floating around the North Atlantic since 2012, when it was cut adrift from Canada and left to rot.
With Hearts cut adrift at the foot of the SPFL, Thistle are slugging it out with Ross County, St Mirren and Kilmarnock to avoid a play-off slot.
Redknapp replaced Mark Hughes at Loftus Road in November with the club already cut adrift with just four points from their opening 12 games.
Pools' 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth, in which they lost Antony Sweeney to a twisted knee and Steve Howard to a hamstring problem, leaves them cut adrift at the foot of League One - eight points adrift of Portsmouth, who they visit on Saturday.
And, like Borat and Bruno, Cohen is at the centre of the madness as Admiral General Aladeen, the tyrannical ruler of the African state of Wadiya, now betrayed and cut adrift in the middle of New York City.
And Pulis believes a host of sides have good cause for concern given none of the teams in the bottom three look like being cut adrift.
Culture secretary Andy Burnham, who announcedthepounds 29milliontoUKSport's board yesterday, insisted no sport would be "cut adrift" despite the remaining pounds 50million funding gap which arose after the Government's plan of attracting 100million private sector investment failed to bring in any money at all.
DARREN Bent is determined to lift Tottenham off the foot of the Barclays Premier League and fears getting cut adrift if they do not kickstart their season immediately.
In each, he argues, the echo or mask is broken or cut adrift so that, for example, Holmes' forensic skill on an English moorside foreshadows the evil of the Final Solution so beloved by Heidegger a half century later.