The phrase "abandon plains" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misspelling or misphrasing, possibly intended to mean "abandon plans."
Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to abandon plans for the outdoor event."
Alternatives: "give up plans" or "discard plans."
The prime minister is facing pressure after declining on at least 12 occasions – according to Labour – to say whether he discussed the government's plans to abandon plain cigarette packaging with Crosby.
The new revelations about Crosby's business interests came as the prime minister declined once again to say whether he discussed the government's plans to abandon plain packaging for cigarettes with Crosby, whose company advised Philip Morris International.
This principle originated with the telephone in the early 20th century, but today's consumers are abandoning plain old telephone service in droves.
But there's no reason to abandon the plain mashed potatoes of every childhood in America.
However, in the western Ganges basin, rivers such as the Sutlej and the Yamuna flow in incised valleys that are deeply entrenched in abandoned alluvial plains (Fig. 10 52, 80, 81, and form regionally extensive sediment routing corridors.
Part of the reason bird species have flourished, scientists say, is that as people abandon farms, the plains revert to grassland.
Thus there is no anomaly in this provision either – nothing that leads to "strange or absurd results — and certainly nothing that allows (let alone requires) abandoning the plain language of Section 1401.
Here Ms. Wallace abandons the plain and forthright dialogue that has worked effectively throughout and reaches (I assume into the novel) for poetic grandeur that comes across as overwrought.
The last main reason that so many pets are abandoned is plain old ignorance.
He added: "So Mr President, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple.
