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Leave alone   /liv əlˈoʊn/   Listen
Leave alone

verb
1.
Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking.  Synonyms: leave, leave behind.  "Leave the young fawn alone" , "Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"






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"Leave alone" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough, but it takes all the brains a man has and all the religion he has to pursue with the fear of God and the love of one's kind, a mutual interest with people one would like to give something to and leave alone. ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

... innocence?” This was asked so naïvely that I burst into a laugh, in which my host joined me. Unfortunately, this grandmamma, like Ellen Terry, cannot be made to understand that there are rôles she should leave alone, that with all the illusions the stage lends she can no longer play girlish parts ...
— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory

... weak enough, mad enough - Light in their loving as soldiers can be - First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing them Now, in far battle, beyond the South Sea! ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy

... bull con about that, Jim," said Parsons bluntly. "Sandy Bourke's a damn good man for you to leave alone an' you know it. Talk ain't ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn



Words linked to "Leave alone" :   let, refrain, forbear



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