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let a sleeping dog lie

let a sleeping dog lie is the alternative form of let sleeping dogs lie.

Meaning of let sleeping dogs lie

Verb

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)

  1. (idiomatic) To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.
    • 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

Forms of let a sleeping dog lie

third-person singular presentlets a sleeping dog lie
present participleletting a sleeping dog lie
past participlelet a sleeping dog lie
pastlet a sleeping dog lie

Questions about let a sleeping dog lie

What is let a sleeping dog lie the alternative form of?
Let a sleeping dog lie is the alternative form of let sleeping dogs lie.

Words near let a sleeping dog lie in the dictionary

  1. Leszczynski
  2. Leszczynskis
  3. Leszno
  4. les🫘
  5. let
  6. let a sleeping dog lie
  7. let a thousand flowers bloom
  8. let alone
  9. let along
  10. let be
  11. let blood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: let a sleeping dog lie (page history and authors); let sleeping dogs lie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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