leave off
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]leave off (third-person singular simple present leaves off, present participle leaving off, simple past and past participle left off)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To omit.
- (informal) To desist; to cease.
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (omit): exclude, miss off; see also Thesaurus:omit
- (desist): break off, have done with; see also Thesaurus:desist
- (stop with a view to resuming): pause, take a break