English
Verb
let sleeping dogs lie (third-person singular simple present lets sleeping dogs lie, present participle letting sleeping dogs lie, simple past and past participle let sleeping dogs lie)
- (idiomatic) To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.
- Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.
Usage notes
Translations
leave things as they are
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 莫惹是非 (mò rě shìfēi), 讓惹是非, 让惹是非 (ràng rě shìfēi)
- Dutch: slapende honden wekt men niet
- Finnish: älä herätä nukkuvaa karhua
- French: ne pas réveiller le chat qui dort (fr)
- German: schlafende Hunde weckt man nicht
- Hungarian: ne ébreszd fel az alvó oroszlánt (hu)
- Italian: non svegliare il can che dorme
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- Japanese: 寝た子を起こすな (ねたこをおこすな, neta ko-o okosu na)
- Polish: nie rozdrapuj starych ran
- Portuguese: não cutucar a onça com vara curta, não cutucar a fera com vara curta, não acordar moscas que estão a dormir
- Russian: не буди́ ли́хо, пока́ спит ти́хо (ne budí líxo, poká spit tíxo), не буди́те спя́щую соба́ку (ne budíte spjáščuju sobáku), от греха́ пода́льше (ru) (ot grexá podálʹše)
- Serbo-Croatian: ne diraj lava dok spava. n
- Spanish: no marear la perdiz, no marear la perdiz dejar las cosas tranquilas
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