maroon

maroon (one) on an island

To cause one to become stranded or stuck on an island. The captain will maroon us on an island if he insists on sailing in these dreadful conditions.
See also: island, maroon, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

maroon someone on an island

to strand someone on something; to abandon someone on something, such as an island. The pirate captain marooned his first mate on a small island in the Caribbean. Through a navigation error, I marooned myself on a tiny island east of Guam.
See also: island, maroon, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • island
  • maroon (one) on an island
  • maroon on an island
  • sail from (some place) to (some place else)
  • sail for (some place)
  • sail for some place
  • bliss (one) out
  • bliss out
  • bliss someone out
  • blissed out
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The Maroons have continued to exist as primarily four distinct communities: Accompong, Charles Town, Moore Town, and Scots Hall, with the Trelawny Town Maroons re-emerging more recently as a smaller Maroon community.
In Jamaica there are three groups of people that are referred to as indigenous, the Maroon, Rastafari and Revivalist, the Maroon been the original from while the other latter emerges from; this make the Maroon the "Grandmother of all" indigenous cultures in Jamaica.
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