Idiom
leave to the imagination
Meaning
Not to reveal.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The movie left the ending to the imagination.”
“The director chose to leave the monster's appearance to the imagination to make the film scarier.”
“By obscuring the details of the tragedy, the author left the true horror to the imagination of the reader.”
Examples
simple
“The movie left the ending to the imagination.”
contextual
“The director chose to leave the monster's appearance to the imagination to make the film scarier.”
complex
“By obscuring the details of the tragedy, the author left the true horror to the imagination of the reader.”
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