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Word of the Day: (in the) lurch
Ok, so earlier today, I explained the idiom ‘leave (somebody) in the lurch,’ but you are probably wondering what the heck a ‘lurch‘ is.
If you play the card game cribbage, a ‘lurch‘ is when you defeat your opponent by double their score. YAY!
But we are not playing cribbage here.
In the idiom leave somebody in the lurch, lurch means a vulnerable or weak position.
If you drive down a deserted highway at 3:00 am, and your car breaks down, you are in the lurch; there is no gas station or another place where you can go for help; you are vulnerable.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 75.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
