Better to let sleeping dogs lie Home The Lexicon Better to let sleeping dogs lie Thumbnail Phrase or WordBetter to let sleeping dogs lieDefinitionIt's wiser to leave a potentially troublesome situation alone than to provoke it. (Geoffrey Chaucer, 1374)LanguageEnglishTypeFaunamorphSubcategoryCaninesGrammatical SubcategorySayings/Similes/Aphorisms/Proverbs Previous itemTo have a bark worse than your bite Next itemIt’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog
