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Today's Idiom = "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie ( don't restart this conflict ... )

**"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"**

To "let sleeping dogs lie" is to avoid restarting old conflicts. Revisiting an old conflict is like waking a sleeping dog; we are better not to do it.

Example: "I wanted to ask her what she thought of her ex-husband, but I figured it was better to let sleeping dogs lie."

Let Bygones Be Bygones

Let's Call It Quits

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