leave well alone
to allow something to stay as it is because doing more might make things worse:
It's going to get in a muddle if you carry on. I should just leave well alone if I were you.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Keeping and staying the same
- consistency
- consistent
- continuum
- control
- fastness
- firm
- flat
- invariant
- leave
- level
- level off
- remain
- seamless
- stability
- stable
- steady
- unchanged
- undisturbed
- wallow in sth
- wouldn't have it any other way idiom
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