let sleeping dogs lieとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

Attestations exist from the 1820s and 1830s. Earlier ones may be discoverable with better corpus searches. The metaphor is self-evident and is typical of folk wisdom. To choose to pass by a sleeping dog without stirring it is comparable to letting a hornets' nest or beehive be, not poking a bear, and so on.

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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.

Alternative forms: let a sleeping dog lie, let the sleeping dogs lie

Near-synonyms: let it be, leave it be, let things be, leave things be, let it alone, leave it alone, let things alone, leave things alone; let bygones be bygones, let nature take its course

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

A: I noticed a minor typo in the proofs just now, but I think they're already doing the make-ready on the press. B: Time to let sleeping dogs lie then.
- 1868 August 29, “Sleeping Dogs”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 26, number 670, page 287:
  
  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.
- 2016, Helene Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 217:
  
  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.
- 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 261:
  
  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?

使用する際の注意点

This verb functions as a proverb when used in the imperative mood.

dogを含むイディオム	dressed up like a dog's dinner go to the dogs let sleeping dogs lie put on the dog sick as a dog >>名詞のイディオム
sleepingを含むイディオム	let sleeping dogs lie >>イディオム一覧 >>形容詞のイディオム


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研究社 新英和中辞典での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

let sleeping dogs lie

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英語ことわざ教訓辞典での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Tatoebaでの「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

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Weblio英語表現辞典での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Weblio英和対訳辞書での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

let sleeping dogs lie

let sleeping dogs lie

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Wiktionary英語版での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味

let sleeping dogs lie

語源

発音

動詞

使用する際の注意点

関連する語

参考

Weblio例文辞書での「let sleeping dogs lie」に類似した例文

let sleeping dogs lie

Let sleeping dogs lie.

「let sleeping dogs lie」の部分一致の例文検索結果

「let sleeping dogs lie」のお隣キーワード

let sleeping dogs lieとは意味・読み方・使い方

研究社新英和中辞典での「let sleeping dogs lie」の意味