leave to one's own devices

English

Verb

leave to one's own devices

(transitive, idiomatic) to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.
Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.

Let's leave her to her own devices and see what she comes up with.

Translations

to leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance

French: livrer à soi-même
Russian: предоставля́ть самому (самой, самим) себе́ (predostavljátʹ samomu (samoj, samim) sebé)

Turkish: kendi haline bırakmak

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