Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases video series for
business people.
And today's idiom is let sleeping dogs
lie. Now this is not to tell
a lie. This lie means like a lying down.
A dog is sleeping. Let sleeping dogs
lie. Let them sleep. OK what does this mean?
Well we'll find out but first let's do our usual
test. OK so tell me somthing that was
a blessing in disguise
for you. Something that seemed bad
at first. but became
very good. OK OK. I hope you have a
a good example. OK let's go on to today's idiom.
Let sleeping dogs lie. But first here's what I usually hear.
So let's imagine Taro and I are colleagues.
OK and I notice another colleague.
He did something bad. For example
he was the late for work. He's ten minutes late
and I say to Taro, what? He's 10 minutes late.
I'm going to report this issue to HR.
OK to Human Resources. It's not fair. He's always late.
OK. And Taro says,
it's not your issue. So
please ignore it. Don't cause trouble.
OK, which is OK.
because it's not my problem. It's the other employees problem.
So please ignore it.
Well it's OK. I understand the meaning.
But it doesn't have that natural
touch. You know so using an idiom here
instead of "ignore", makes it much more natural
like this. OK so I say Taro,
he's late again. I'm going to report this issue HR.
And he says Hika, Hika. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
Just just let sleeping dogs lie.
Yeah very natural and very soft.
Better than please ignore it. It's not your
issue. You know. Just I I know it's a problem but it's not really
your problem. You know. So just leave it alone.
Ignore it. Don't worry about it. It's not your issue.
Just let sleeping dogs lie. OK.
Very common useful idiom.
Let's look at pronunciation. It's not just
let. But it's just let, just let.
Just let sleeping dogs lie just let sleeping dogs lie.
You try OK.
And with my sentence. I I'm going to report this issue to HR.
OK OK.
I understand. I'll just let sleeping dogs lie.
OK did you get that? OK for homework,
so I want you tell me. Have you ever
let sleeping dogs lie at work?
Maybe there's a situation you know it's it's a problem.
But you just kind of ignore it
because you don't want to cause trouble.
Have you been in a situation like that? OK well think about it.
And tell me next time. And we'll see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.