Meaning of leave someone in the dust | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To completely overtake a competitor.
   idiomatic, informal
2. To abandon; to leave behind.
   dated

Examples

“The company has currently no plans to switch away from the old designs, so they could very easily be left in the dust.”

“With that we parted. Presently after my friend overtook and passed me on a hired steed which seemed to scorn its cavalier; and I was left in the dust of his passage, a prey to whirling thoughts.”

“Also, a few good, active, progressive teachers in one school will set all the others to thinking. By selecting the most alert in each school, a little leaven will leaven the whole lump. The fear of being left in the dust of the procession is a spur if wisely directed.”

“In like manner, our great Henry, was not he forſaken? Left in the duſt of disfauour, and neglected all the time of his childhood?”

“The soul knows itself to be more noble than the corruptible body, which it is now to leave in the dust;”

“It was conformable to the eternal juſtice of his Father to exalt him that had humbled himſelf ſo much; Lowlineſs ſhall not always be left in the duſt to be deſpiſed.”

“But conſider, Chriſt is long-liv'd, and therefore your Glory ſhall not be left in the Duſt, nor God's holy Ones left to Corruption and Rottenneſs.”

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