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Phrase(s): leave someone up in the air
Fig. to leave someone waiting for a decision. • Please don’t leave me up in the air. I want to know what’s going to happen to me. • Nothing was decided, and they left me up in the air., Phrase(s): leave something up in the air
Fig. to leave a matter undecided. (Alludes to something drifting in the air, moving neither up nor down.) • Let’s get this settled now. I don’t want to leave anything up in the air over the weekend. • The whole matter was left up in the air for another week.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs