leave aside

Related to leave aside: put aside, cast aside

leave aside

1. To temporarily stop focusing on or paying attention to something. Leave the financial aspects aside for a moment and focus on what kind of work would make you the happiest. Can you two just leave aside your differences for now and get this done, please?
2. To reserve or save something for someone or for a later use. I can leave the dress aside for you, if you'd like to think about it for a day. I recommend you leave aside a portion of each pay check as a rainy-day fund for the future.
See also: aside, leave
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

leave something aside

 
1. to leave something in reserve. Leave some of the sugar aside for use in the icing. Leave aside some cookies too.
2. to ignore something, especially a fact. Let's leave the question of who will pay for it aside for a while. We will leave aside the current situation and talk about the future.
See also: aside, leave
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • put (something) behind (someone or something)
  • put behind
  • put behind one
  • put something behind you
  • be strapped for cash
  • be dead set against (someone or something)
  • be dead set against something
  • be set against (something)
  • be set against something/against doing something
  • dead set against (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
University professor Venko Andonovski says for Nova Makedonija that in this crazy time when everything is soiled because of that lousy money, we should try to leave aside the love and the church from the calculations and the impudent penetration of the trade mentality.
Let's leave aside for a moment the doubts regarding his guilty verdict.
"Leave aside the sense of taking money in taxes from the wages of low-income families and then asking them to fill in a form so they can get it back," he said.
We'll leave aside for now the issues related to mental health and learning disabilities, two other areas where students are addressing sensitive topics in their admissions applications.
Leave aside the fact that property owners in eminent domain situations often receive grossly unfair "just" compensation.
Let us leave aside suspicions aroused by the fact that the source of the research is the conservative Heritage Foundation and by the fact that it is the average income of the neighborhood rather than that of the actual recruit that is used.
Now we come face to face with primary questions beginning with a "why", and leave aside the "how".
LET US LEAVE ASIDE THE NUANCES OF THE LEGITIMACY OF a Christian warrior or the status of those who die for the wrong reason or the legitimacy of self-destruction as a protest to set down this bedrock Christian principle: One cannot kill or maim innocent people and claim the title of martyr.
Also, we cannot leave aside the effects of modern life, the single child syndrome, households wherein technology creates couch potatoes and material wealth that provides ample opportunity for excuses like riding lessons, hockey, week-end skiing and southern holidays to justify absence.
If we leave aside the fact that this will mean the lives of a number of innocent people will be saved, it is hard to see what this can actually achieve.
Yet let's leave aside the endless reasons why National Missile Defense will never work.
But state-of-the-art wheelchair design has moved on--the new ones cost around $3,000, leave aside getting to New York...
To attend to Morris' transformation of his prototype is to leave aside the work's pat ironies the better to follow the ways in which the newcomer sought to insert a legible identity for himself into an established scene by reversing certain of its defining components.
At a Friday night news conference in Washington, Mr Bhutto-Zardari urged Pakistani politicians to leave aside their rona dhona (grievances) and work together to undo 'the conspiracy' to blame Pakistan for the mistakes it did not commit.
Leave aside an area of your garden for children and give them ownership of a space for them to dig and plant seeds such as sunflowers, peas, beans, and nasturtiums, anything that grows easily and produces dramatic results.