leave off

present singular third person leaves off · participle present leaving off · participle past left off · past left off

1. idiomatictransitiveTo omit.

   Synonyms: exclude

2. informalTo desist; to cease.

   Leave off hitting him!

   Synonyms: let off, let up, miss off, break off, have done with

3. intransitiveTo stop with a view to resuming at a later point.

   We will now continue where the other team left off.

   2 more examples

   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.

   2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2013

   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.

   2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC

   Synonyms: pause, take a break