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do without

verb

to forgo; manage without
I can't do without cigarettes
not to require (uncalled-for comments or advice)
we can do without your criticisms thank you

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Idioms and Phrases

Manage in spite of being without something. For example, They will just have to do without a vacation this year , or There was no telephone in the cabin, but we soon learned to do without . [Early 1700s]

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It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life.

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