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be left hanging

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be left hanging (in the air/in midair)
if a problem or question is left hanging in the air, it is not dealt with or answered. We failed to resolve the issue at the last meeting and it was left hanging in the air.
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A connector on a reeled-up cable should never be left hanging loose.
He shouldn't be left hanging, with USA Gymnastics backpedaling, the USOC playing politics, FIG washing its hands of it all, high-minded columnists telling him to hand the medal over.
The Shi'a south could be cut off and, possibly, incorporated into Iran; the oil-rich Kurdish north could gain independence or possibly be annexed--de jure or de facto--by Turkey; the resourceless "Sunni triangle" would thus be left hanging in the middle of nowhere while Baghdad, a mixed city, would become the stage of inter-communal carnage.
 
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