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leave off

verbe
  1. To omit. (transitive)
  2. To desist; to cease. (informal) · Leave off hitting him!
  3. To stop with a view to resuming at a later point. (intransitive) · We will now continue where the other team left off.
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“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 7 · B2
“Leave off that!” screamed the Queen.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 60 · B2
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 70 · B2
“Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 82 · B2

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