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Idiom

let things be

Meaning

Synonym of let it be.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“It is better to just let things be.”

“After the argument, he decided to stop fighting and let things be for a while.”

“Rather than obsessing over the past mistakes that he could no longer change, he chose to let things be and focus on his future.”

Examples

simple

“It is better to just let things be.”

contextual

“After the argument, he decided to stop fighting and let things be for a while.”

complex

“Rather than obsessing over the past mistakes that he could no longer change, he chose to let things be and focus on his future.”

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