Communication
pick up where you left off
continue from where you stopped
To continue something from the point where you stopped it earlier.
Hear it in real life
Shall we continue the film tonight?
Sure, we can pick up where we left off.
After lunch, we picked up where we left off with the budget discussion.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We picked up where we stopped off.
Say: We picked up where we left off.
Use "leave off" in this fixed expression; do not replace "left" with "stopped."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
pick up where you left off; picked up where we left off
Your turn: say it out loud
After lunch, we picked up where we left off with the budget discussion.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
pick up where you left off
continue from where you stopped
“After lunch, we picked up where we left off with the budget discussion.”
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