leave something to someone's imagination

leave something to someone's imagination
leave something to someone’s imagination phrase
to show or describe some but not all of something, because people can easily imagine what the rest is like

He saw his wife with another man... I’ll leave the rest to your imagination!

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Main entry: imagination

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