"don’t shit where you eat" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [Anglais]

Audio: En-au-don't shit where you eat.ogg
  1. Mieux vaut ne pas semer le trouble là où on reviendra. Tags: figuratively, vulgar
    Sense id: fr-don’t_shit_where_you_eat-en-phrase-G6KRgD3x Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais, Termes vulgaires en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: you don’t dip your pen in company ink

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          "text": "1998 April 14, Nelson Navarro, \"Ever faithful, ever true,\" Manila Standard (Philippines) (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):",
          "translation": "The guiding principle is Don't shit where you eat. Office romances are always destructive of morale and objectivity."
        },
        {
          "text": "2003 Oct. 8, Jonathan Valania, \"Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Pussy,\" Philadelphia Weekly(retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):",
          "translation": "Limbaugh was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the NAB convention in, of all places, Philadelphia, thus violating the cardinal law of the animal kingdom: Don't shit where you eat."
        },
        {
          "text": "2006 Sept. 19, Michael Musto, \"NY Mirror,\" Village Voice(retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):",
          "translation": "Mitchell refused to indulge in on-set romances with either gender. \"You don't shit where you eat,\" he told me, plainly."
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          "text": "2006 Sept. 19, Michael Musto, \"NY Mirror,\" Village Voice(retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):",
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