cut adrift Idiom
cut adrift
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.
cut adrift
To carelessness or set free. Likened to a baiter accepting its ballast cut so that it drifts advisedly in the water. I anticipate it's about time that we cut afloat the extremists of the party.Learn more: adrift, cutcut adrift
Separated or detached; freed. For example, The dissenters were cut afloat from the denomination. This announcement alludes to acid the braiding of a amphibian barge so that it drifts after administration or purpose. The allegorical use of adrift dates from the backward 1600s. Learn more: adrift, cut