do without

"At the end of the day I'm not getting any younger so I could do without all this hassle."

While putting pen to paper is something most of us do without thinking about, for Leonard, every letter and word he writes is a battle.

And then there was DOGE, the department he talked Trump into letting him have to slash at least a trillion dollars, which he promised to do without even breaking a sweat.

"������ is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without European languages?"

Anytime you have stuff to do, without just acting, like you’re doing busy work — you’re, like, here’s how you do an appendectomy — and you learn and when you’re picking up the right tools, you’re saying the right stuff, you’re making incisions — that stuff you’ve got to learn.