be left holding the baby

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

be left holding the baby idiom ( US be left holding the bag )
to suddenly have to deal with a difficult situation because others have decided that they do not want the responsibility
• The other investors pulled out of the project and we were left holding the baby.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Coping and not coping ↑Dealing with things or people ↑Tolerating and enduring
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