English / idiom
Leave Well Enough Alone
MEANING IN ENGLISH
To refrain from meddling with or altering something that is already satisfactory, as attempts to improve it may cause trouble.
In context
01
The draft looked perfectly balanced, so my supervisor told me to leave well enough alone.
02
Trying to update the old codebase caused endless errors; we really should have left well enough alone.
Synonyms
let sleeping dogs lie,don't rock the boat,hold one's hand
Antonyms
meddle,tamper with,stir up trouble
Collocations
wise to leave well enough alone,decide to leave well enough alone,prefer to leave well enough alone