Idiom
leave it alone
Meaning
Synonym of let it be.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please leave it alone and stop touching the wires.”
“The argument was getting heated, so I decided to leave it alone and walk away.”
“Although the historical evidence remained ambiguous, the researchers chose to leave it alone rather than risk drawing premature conclusions.”
Examples
simple
“Please leave it alone and stop touching the wires.”
contextual
“The argument was getting heated, so I decided to leave it alone and walk away.”
complex
“Although the historical evidence remained ambiguous, the researchers chose to leave it alone rather than risk drawing premature conclusions.”
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