dance with the one that brought you

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dance with the one that brought you

(主要用于美国和加拿大) 对一直支持你、关注你或帮助你的人要体贴和忠诚。字面意思为“与带你来的人共舞”。
- 1986, Cooperative Farmer, Vols 42-43, p. 77. (Google snippet view):
  "I have had people say, ‘Oh, the landscaping business is doing OK. So, you're going to get out of tobacco farming.’ No! I would like to see my landscaping business grow. But, without the cash flow from the farm, I would not have been able to start the landscaping operation," the Bunn, N.C., farmer stresses. "As they say, you dance with the one that brought you."
  “有人对我说，‘哦，景观设计业务做得不错。所以，你要退出烟草种植业了。’不! 我希望看到我的景观设计业务增长。但是，如果没有农场的现金流，我就无法开始景观设计业务，”这位北卡罗来纳州布恩镇的农民强调说。 “正如他们所说，你要与带你来的人共舞。”
- 2000-10-18, Thomas Boswell, "Unlike the Boss, Torre Recognizes the Right Stuff," Washington Post:
  Sometimes you have to dance with the one that brought you. And, ever since he won a crucial Game Four in Cleveland on 16 days rest in the 1998 ALCS, Torre has trusted Hernandez more than any of his starters.
  有时你必须与带你来的人共舞。而且，自从他在1998年美国东部决赛中休息16天在克利夫兰赢得一场关键的第四场比赛后，托雷对埃尔南德斯的信任超过了他的任何一个先发球员。
- 2014-02-17, John E. Sununu, "Keeping Obama at arm’s length," Boston Globe:
  Obama’s approval ratings have fallen below 40 percent. “Dance with the one that brought you,” the saying goes, but when you are a Senate Democrat stuck with the wrong prom date, there’s only one thing to do: hide in the bathroom.
  欧巴马的支持率已经降到了40%以下。俗话说：“与带你来的人共舞”，但如果你是一个参议院民主党人，在舞会上被错误的舞伴缠住时，只有一件事可以做：躲进厕所。
- 2016-04-30, James Allan, "Leaving the dance with the one who brought you," Spectator (UK):
  I mention this Canadian Conservative Prime Minister because he coined the political adage ‘you dance with the one that brought you’. In less colourful terms Mulroney meant that a Prime Minister should ‘never, ever ignore his party’s base’.
  我提到这位加拿大保守党总理，是因为他创造了这句政治谚语：“你要与带来你的人共舞”。用不太花哨的语言来说，马尔罗尼的意思是，一个总理应该 “永远、永远不要忽视他所在政党的基础”。

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