leave someone out in the cold

Verb

leave someone out in the cold (third-person singular simple present leaves someone out in the cold, present participle leaving someone out in the cold, simple past and past participle left someone out in the cold)

1. (idiomatic) To deliberately fail to provide someone with support; to ignore or neglect.
   • I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write this is a horse under what I foolishly meant for one. Any key to a work of imagination would be nearly, if not quite, as absurd. The tale is there, not to hide, but to show: if it show nothing at your window, do not open your door to it; leave...1902, Laurence Housman, “[Appendix: What is a Fairy Tale?] ‘Introduction’ to Gammer Grethel’s Fairy Tales”, in Michael Newton, editor, Victorian Fairy Tales (Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford...
   • There was as yet no question of his [Albrecht von Wallenstein's] abandoning the Emperor [Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor], but he obviously meant to leave both Saxony and Bavaria out in the cold.1906, A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, “Wallenstein and Bernard of Weimar”, in A. W. Ward, G[eorge] W[alter] Prothero, Stanley Leathes, editors, The Cambridge Modern History, volume IV (The Thirty Years’...