Better to leave her be and enjoy the moment.

English Phrase: Leave someone be

Here we are back to our first idiom after hump day.  We have a phrase today: leave someone be.

If we leave someone be we do not bother them and we let them continue what they are doing.

Imagine you have a young child.

Suddenly you realize that your young child is very quiet.

It’s very unusual for a young child to be quiet!  When young children are quiet it generally means that they are being naughty.

They’re often eating dirt, setting fire to the sofa or using their mother’s lipstick to create ‘works of art’ on the walls. Ha, ha, ha!

Anyway, you sneak to the door of her bedroom and there is your young child, your little angel fast asleep on the floor of her room surrounded by her toys.

You have a peaceful moment!!

What do you do? Do you wake her up? Absolutely not! Do you sit there and watch her? Absolutely not! If you do that, there’s a danger of waking her up by accident. So, what do you do?

You leave her be and enjoy your peaceful moment because as a parent you know that it may be 20 years before you have another peaceful moment!

There you go, that is the meaning of leave someone be.