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dejar plantado

Principal Translations
Spanish		English
dejar plantado a alguien loc verb + prep	coloquial (incumplir cita, compromiso) (person)	stand [sb] up v expr
		dump [sb]⇒ vtr
Note: "Stand up" is a separable phrasal verb when used in this sense.
	Tomás dejó plantadas a sus hermanas la otra noche en el cine.
	Tomás stood his sisters up the other night at the cinema.
dejar plantado a alguien loc verb + prep	coloquial (pareja: abandonar de repente) (colloquial)	give [sb] the shove v expr
		walk out on [sb] v expr
		dump⇒, ditch⇒ vtr
	Esa mujer dejó plantado a mi hermano para irse con otro.
	That woman gave my brother the shove to run off with another man.

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Compound Forms:
Spanish		English
dejar plantado a alguien loc verb	coloquial (no asistir a cita) (date)	stand [sb] up v expr
		leave [sb] in the lurch v expr
	Marcos dejó plantada a su novia.
	Marcos stood up his girlfriend.
dejar plantado en el altar loc verb	(no asistir a tu boda)	leave [sb] standing at the altar v expr
	El día de su boda le entró pánico y dejó a su novio plantado en el altar.
	On her wedding day, she panicked and left her fiancé at the altar.

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