1. Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp: Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive, saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities --; but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer. BNC
2. Shearson was left holding the baby when the music stopped after the buyout: J H Whitney Co, leading the buyout, had persuaded Shearson to put up a bridging loan, and that it would easily be able to sell much of it on; in the event, the junk bond market collapsed and no-one wanted it. BNC
3. He abandoned the project after a year because he felt that it was going to fail and I was holding the baby. CIDoI