leave sb hanging
to keep someone waiting for your decision or answer:
I was left hanging, not knowing whether I'd got the job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Waiting
- await
- hang
- hang around (somewhere)
- hang on
- hang round (somewhere)
- hold
- mark time idiom
- mill
- mill around
- queue
- ready
- sit
- sit back
- stand
- wait in
- wait list
- wait on sth
- wait sth out
- wait up
- wait list
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