"better the devil you know than the devil you don't know" meaning in Inglés

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Proverb

  1. Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer.
    Sense id: es-better_the_devil_you_know_than_the_devil_you_don't_know-en-proverb-HT2rJAUK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know
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