let alone
See leave someone alone.
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How to use let alone in a sentence
Accordingly, the policy which I advocate is not the let-alone policy.
The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It | R. W. BeersThey are regarded as advocates of individualism and the laissez-faire or, as I should prefer to call it, the let-alone principle.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. | Sir Leslie StephenSocialism is the juste milieu between Let-alone-ism on the one hand and Anarchism on the other.
Twentieth Century Socialism | Edmond KellySipsu's let-alone policy caused his wife to complain that she only of the women was without even a needle.
North-Pole Voyages | Zachariah Atwell MudgeWe have the let-alone policy, in puris naturalibus, and everything is truly let alone, but the property of the master.
A Residence in France | J. Fenimore Cooper
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