cut adrift

Separated or detached; freed. For example, The dissenters were cut adrift from the denomination. This expression alludes to cutting the rope of a floating vessel so that it drifts without direction or purpose. The figurative use of adrift dates from the late 1600s.

Words nearby cut adrift

cut a deal, cut a long story short, cut a wide swath, cut above, cut across, cut adrift, cut along, cut and dried, cut and fill, cut and paste, cut and run