let sleeping dogs lie

英語

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let sleeping dogs lie (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 lets sleeping dogs lie，現在分詞 letting sleeping dogs lie，一般過去時及過去分詞 let sleeping dogs lie)

1. (俗語) 不惹是生非

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

   最後，他們決定多一事不如少一事，不再談論這個話題。

   • 1868年8月29日, 「Sleeping Dogs」, 出自 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 第 26 卷, 第 670 號，第 287 頁:

     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 頁:

     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 頁:

     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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參見

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