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leave to someone's own devices
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Idioms and Phrases
Allow someone to do as he or she wishes. For example, Left to his own devices, he would hire someone to do the yard work . This expression, uses device in the sense of “a plan or scheme.” [Late 1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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