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Left out to dry?

That’s exaggerating things a little bit, perhaps, but you get an idea of someone who feels they’re left out to dry.

Here are media examples of this very popular idiom:

1. The woman at the centre of the Football Association’s sex scandal has launched a blistering attack on her former employers and advised Sven-Goran Eriksson to quit his job.

Faria Alam has claimed that the “knives are out” for Eriksson and that they tried to sacrifice the England manager to save Mark Palios, its then chief executive.

Palios resigned in the scandal that errupted after it emerged that Miss Alam had had affairs with both men.

Miss Alam has said that she was “shocked and disgusted” by former FA communications director Colin Gibson's proposal that if the News of the World left Palios out of it, she would have to tell them all about Eriksson.

Gibson has also resigned in the fall-out from the scandal, while Eriksson has survived. The FA board ruled on Thursday that he has no case to answer.

Miss Alam, 38, said: “I flatly refused to lie for them and now their disgraceful plot has been exposed. Sven has done nothing wrong but the FA was willing to sacrifice him to get Palios off the hook.

“Like me he was hung out to dry by the FA.”

- Faria breaks silence on Sven affair, Telegraph.co.uk, August 6, 2004.

2. Shellie Zimmerman, who pleaded guilty to perjury Wednesday for lying about the couple’s finances during her husband’s bond hearing, refused to comment on whether she was pressured to do so.