Usually means: Avoid disturbing a settled situation.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. let sleeping dogs lie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. let sleeping dogs lie: Merriam-Webster
  3. let sleeping dogs lie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. let sleeping dogs lie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Let sleeping dogs lie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. let sleeping dogs lie: Wiktionary
  7. Let sleeping dogs lie: Dictionary.com
  8. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Let sleeping dogs lie, let sleeping dogs lie: ESL Idiom Page
  10. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: A to Z list of the most popular idioms

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Let sleeping dogs lie: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. let sleeping dogs lie: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (let sleeping dogs lie)

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

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