leave to stew

leave somebody to stew

also let somebody stew

if you leave someone to stew, you leave them to worry about something bad that has happened or something stupid they have done I could have said a few comforting words and made him feel better but I thought I'd let him stew a while instead.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cleopatra	[kliə'pa:trə]
Anita (1)	ah-NEE-tah (Spanish), AH-nee-tah (Finnish)	Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Slovene, English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish,
Abel	AY-bəl (English), ah-BEL (Spanish), ə-BEL (Portuguese)	English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Eddy	['edi]
Ghjuvan	-	Corsican
GÜLay	-	Turkish