be left to (one's) own devices



Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

be left to (one's) own devices

To be left unsupervised or uncontrolled; to be allowed to do as one pleases. My job is really great: I know what I need to work on and am just left to my own devices. If left to their own devices, children will get into all sorts of mischief!
See also: device, left, own

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Auchinleck['ɔ:kin'lek]
Sapphirasə-FIE-rə (English)Biblical
Tekla-Georgian, Hungarian
VoldemĀRs-Latvian
Vilis-Latvian
Ivica-Croatian, Serbian