to stop doing something
"" You promised me that if I let you leave off the strapping you would not use that arm.
And still he kept seeing, and though there were horrors here, to be sure, nothing in him made him want to leave off his seeing.
Europe is sealed off -- with the exception of Finland which you asked me to leave off the list.
I wish he’d leave off moaning about everything!
We're having pie and chips for tea tonight so I'll just eat the meat and the chips and leave off the pastry.
leaves off
leaving off
left off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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