let's\ don't

let's\ don't
• let's don't
• don't let's
substandard
Let's not; let us not; I suggest that we don't.

"'Let's go out and play," said Fred. "Let's don't until the rain stops," said Mary.

Don't let's go now. Let's go tomorrow instead.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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