For example: Don't ask him when he's finally going to get a new job when we go to dinner tonight. You know that will upset him. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
TO LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE
The idiom "to let sleeping dogs lie" means that a person should not do or say something to another person that would disturb that other person and possibly start trouble.
For example: Don't ask him when he's finally going to get a new job when we go to dinner tonight. You know that will upset him. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
For example: Don't ask him when he's finally going to get a new job when we go to dinner tonight. You know that will upset him. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
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