let sleeping dogs lie

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let sleeping dogs lie (第三人称单数简单现在时 lets sleeping dogs lie，现在分词 letting sleeping dogs lie，一般过去时及过去分词 let sleeping dogs lie)

1. (俗语) 不惹是生非

   Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.

   最后，他们决定多一事不如少一事，不再谈论这个话题。

   • 1868年8月29日, “Sleeping Dogs”, 出自 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 第 26 卷, 第 670 号，第 287 页:

     But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.

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   • 2016, Helene Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN，第 217 页:

     Sometimes you just had to let stuff go. Endlessly rehashing old hurts just made things worse. It was far better, I'd learned, to let sleeping dogs lie.

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   • 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN，第 261 页:

     Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that. Should he let sleeping dogs lie?

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参见

• agree to disagree
• benign neglect
• dog sleep
• hands off
• let bygones be bygones
• let it be
• let nature take its course
• sleeping giant