Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) imprisoned.

1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Sept. 52/1: Mr. ‘Enery’ Bingham, ‘pushite,’ factory worker, walked down the old familiar alley for the first time in six months. To tell the truth ‘Enery’ had been ‘High and Dry’ for that enforced, period at the expense of an impartial government.
1989		22 May obit. Canon G. Routledge in T. Beeson Priests & Prelates (2002) 44: Routledge [...] was soon very much at home [con. 1970s] in the Corpus [Christi college, Cambridge] tradition of conservative politics and ‘high and dry’ religion.