英语词汇“to wake a sleeping dog”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to wake a sleeping dog and variants: to stimulate or provoke some person or influence which is currently quiet, but if interfered with will create a disturbance or problem.

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?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 488 (MED) Men of Fraunce hadde experience that hit was perellous to wake an olde dogge from slepe.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Di^v It is euill wakyng of the slepyng dog.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 93 It is good therefore if you haue a Wife, that is..vnquiet and contentious, to let her alone, not to wake an angry Dogge.

1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. iv. 259 Some raise the devill and a storm in the soul and cannot calm it again: It is not good to provoke, irritate, and waken a sleeping dogge.

1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xx. 40 It is kittle [sc. risky] to waken sleeping Dogs.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. ii. 41 Friedrich is not the man to awaken Parliamentary sleeping-dogs.

1996 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 23 Nov. 1 I'm a little worried that we may have awakened a sleeping dog. It's obvious the Packers will be looking for revenge.

单词	to wake a sleeping dog
释义	> as lemmas to wake a sleeping dog a. to wake a sleeping dog and variants: to stimulate or provoke some person or influence which is currently quiet, but if interfered with will create a disturbance or problem. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 488 (MED) Men of Fraunce hadde experience that hit was perellous to wake an olde dogge from slepe. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Di^v It is euill wakyng of the slepyng dog. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 93 It is good therefore if you haue a Wife, that is..vnquiet and contentious, to let her alone, not to wake an angry Dogge. 1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. iv. 259 Some raise the devill and a storm in the soul and cannot calm it again: It is not good to provoke, irritate, and waken a sleeping dogge. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xx. 40 It is kittle [sc. risky] to waken sleeping Dogs. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. ii. 41 Friedrich is not the man to awaken Parliamentary sleeping-dogs. 1996 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 23 Nov. 1 I'm a little worried that we may have awakened a sleeping dog. It's obvious the Packers will be looking for revenge. extracted from dogn.¹ < as lemmas
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