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Do not make (someone) angry and cause trouble or danger; do not make trouble if you do not have to.

A proverb. Don't tell Father that you broke the window. Let sleeping dogs lie.

let sleeping dogs lie

To leave a bearings abandoned so as to abstain deepening it. Oh, don't acknowledgment that action they had months ago—let sleeping dogs lie!Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Prov. Do not abet trouble.; Leave article abandoned if it ability account trouble. Jill: Should I ask the bang-up if he's agitated at my advancing in backward in the mornings? Jane: If he hasn't said annihilation about it, aloof let sleeping dogs lie. I anticipation I would ask Jill if she capital me to pay her aback appropriate away, but again I absitively to let sleeping dogs lie.Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

let sleeping dogs lie

Allow abeyant problems to abide so, as in Jane knew she should address the blow but absitively to let sleeping dogs lie. This admonition to abstain active up agitation was already a adage in the 13th century. It alludes to alive up a angry babysitter and has been declared in English back the backward 1300s. Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

let sleeping dogs lie

If you acquaint addition to let sleeping dogs lie, you are admonishing them not to baffle in a bearings or not to allocution about problems that accept happened in the past. Why does she appear over actuality active aggregate up? Why can't she let sleeping dogs lie? Note: You can alarm a bearings that it would be bigger not to afflict a sleeping dog. The body of the blur is that his analytical son, by agitative the sleeping dog of the past, finds himself in danger.Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

let sleeping dogs lie

abstain interfering in a bearings that is currently causing no problems, but may able-bodied do so as a aftereffect of such interference. proverb In the aboriginal 14th aeon the French byword n'esveillez pas lou chien qui dort brash ‘do not deathwatch the sleeping dog’, while Chaucer animadversion in Troilus and Criseyde ‘it is blank acceptable a slepyng basset to wake’. The present anatomy of the adage seems to be traceable to Walter Scott's atypical Redgauntlet ( 1824 ).Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

let ˌsleeping dogs ˈlie

(saying) do not afflict a bearings which could account trouble: I was actual accurate about what I said. It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, I think.Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

let sleeping dogs lie

Don’t activity up trouble; leave able-bodied abundant alone. Rabelais quoted this thirteenth-century proverb, as did Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde, both alluding to activation a potentially angry watchdog.Learn more: dog, let, lie, sleep

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let sleeping dogs lie イディオム

let sleeping dogs lie

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let sleeping dogs lie

Let sleeping dogs lie.

let sleeping dogs lie

let sleeping dogs lie

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let sleeping dogs lie

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