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quit while one's ahead



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Idioms and Phrases

Don't try to improve on something that is already accomplished, as in Those drapes we hung are even enough—let's quit while we're ahead . This idiom also implies that further action runs the risk of spoiling something. Also see leave well enough alone .

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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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