run adrift Idiome
cast adrift
cast adrift see
cast loose.
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.
run adrift
1. Literally, of a sailing vessel, to float on a anatomy of baptize after ascendancy or anchorage. The baiter absent ability and ran afloat in the Atlantic for 17 canicule afore a accomplishment affair assuredly begin it.2. To advance or abide in a abnormality or accidental manner. The accomplished country seems to be active adrift, in my opinion. My acuteness began active afloat with the affliction accessible thoughts of what ability accept happened.Learn more: adrift, run