His friends let him down.

More Questions from Idioms and Phrases

• I felt like a fish out of water among all those business tycoons.
• Some people now wonder whether we just pay lip-service or genuinely subscribe to democracy.
• Don't thrust your nose into my affairs.
• He visits the doctor off and on.
• The recent film "Secular India" has tried to keep the pot of Muslim women's Bill boiling
• The robber took to his heels when the police arrived.
• You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
• The rebels held out for about a month
• The new economic policy is likely to run into rough weather.
• The old father brought home the moral of unity by asking each of his sons to break the bundle of sticks

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