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LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE

to accept a situation as it is; to avoid trying to improve a situation one’s actions might make it worse
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1. Her work isn’t perfect, but your criticism might just make the situation worse. I recommend that you leave well enough alone
2. I’m a perfectionist, so I can never leave well enough alone. Sometimes that is okay, but sometimes it causes me nothing but trouble.

Synonym: let sleeping dogs lie.


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