leave off

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leave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To omit.
  2. (informal) To desist; to cease.
    Synonyms: let off, let up
    Leave off hitting him!
  3. (intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
    We will now continue where the other team left off.
    • 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club[1]:
      Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
    • 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC[2]:
      The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.

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