"let sleeping dogs lie" meaning in 英语

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Verb

Audio: En-au-let sleeping dogs lie.ogg Forms: lets sleeping dogs lie, letting sleeping dogs lie, let sleeping dogs lie
Etymology: (此詞的語源缺失或不完整。請協助添加,或在茶室進行討論。)
  1. 不惹是生非 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-let_sleeping_dogs_lie-en-verb-ELtJbNiz
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          "ref": "1868 August 29, “Sleeping Dogs”, 出自 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 卷 26, 號 670,頁號 287:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN,頁號 261:",
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