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
Percival	PUR-si-vəl (English)	Arthurian Romance, English
Photina	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Ruslan	roo-SLAHN (Russian)	Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Cheche
SŁAwomir	swah-VAW-meer	Polish
Hefin	-	Welsh
Uriel	YUWR-ee-əl (English)	Biblical, Hebrew