Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

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Usman Zafar Raja said:   1 decade ago
Here sleeping dogs refer to the people who are inactive in their life. The statement tells that we should leave those people on their own.

I totally disagree with this. Their may be strong reasons for those people to be inactive. May be they never had enough opportunities in life or they never had been motivated. So instead of letting them sleep, the high achievers or the active people should help those poor souls. Its our moral duty. May be, by a little act of help or motivation can change their entire life.

Achievements come in life by combination of hard work and luck. If the luck is missing then it leads to depression and discouragement and even hard workers can become lazy and inactive. So the cause of discouragement should be identified and the person should be helped out in every possible way.

Regards!!
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Sony said:   9 years ago
Hello Friends,

I agree with you all to some extent but in my view, we can't let sleeping dogs lie because this modern era is very competitive and to achieve something we all have to run in this race. In every field we know that teamwork leads to a better output so have you ever think that what if we let the sleeping dogs lie or leave the inactive person in the state they want to?

Simply we will get a wide variance between the expected output and the output we got.

So, it's better to motivate the sleeping dogs or the inactive person to actively take part in this race instead of relying on luck.

MAKE THE SLEEPING DOGS A CONTRIBUTOR, MOTIVATOR, AND ACTIVE.

Becoz in this democratic country every individual is equally responsible for the good and bad condition so small loopholes like inactiveness of individuals can make the country to suffer.

We all know that PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. So, it's better to awaken those sleeping dogs than to lie.
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Nishtha said:   1 decade ago
The idiom let sleeping dogs lie means not to stir up old conflicts or provoke an argument over unresolved issues. It is often better to agree to disagree and move forward rather than trigger hostilities over an ongoing difference of opinion. Let sleeping dogs lie refers to the instinctive behavior of a dog whenever it is awakened suddenly from a nap. Many dogs instinctively lash out at those who try to awaken them without reason, and these natural responses are often quite painful.

One example of the idiom in action would be a heated discussion between a man and wife over an unpaid bill. While the issue itself may be relatively minor, it could bring up painful memories of a previous fight over household finances. Instead of provoking or escalating the argument, both might agree to let sleeping dogs lie and not remind each other of the previous fight unnecessarily. Dredging up a provocative or painful issue from the past would not help to resolve the current situation, so both sides agree not to discuss it.
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Tinku Prasad IITR said:   1 decade ago
To let sleeping dogs lie means 'To leave things as they are'. But we cannot let the things as they are because by the time our needs are changing, demand for things are increasing and cost of living a decent life is increasing, we have work more and make others who are bearing responsibility also work more. So we have to interfere.

As we know human have great tendency to exempt themselves from work. Every one want to get more and more output with less work input. Most of Politicians of our country are lazy and corrupt, they don't do work properly themselves and also don't let others do things right way and they often try to avoid investigation in their work by misusing their power. So we have to interfere and make them work honestly or remove them, 'we cannot let the sleeping dog just lie'.

Also in every organization, there is always a supervision on a person whether he is topmost or lowermost authority to make organization work efficiently and smoothly. So if you want to progress you have to interfere in most of the cases.

"We cannot let the sleeping dog just lie".
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Abhijit anand said:   1 decade ago
Here every one is talking about to avoid sleeping dogs or to motivate but the matter is, no one wants to know the main problem behind those kinds of person. On earth god gave birth in the similar pattern to all but not provided the same opportunity to grow. May be the reason behind those sleeping dogs are some sort of tragedy, adversity, unhappiness towards the society in which they live. So as being a part of society or human beings we must make them realise that there are persons who can also help them. Thus come out from this situations and lead a better respectful life.
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Arnab bhowmick said:   10 years ago
"Let the Sleeping dogs lie". Well who wants to invite difficult situations in his/hers life?If you don't then it's better not to interfere in things which escalates your problems. "Sleeping dog" is symbolic of the matters which are not causing you harm presently but it may if you try to open it i.e. awakening the dog from it's deep slumber.

This would simply hamper one's state of mind which would result in hampering of work, health etc, as a disturbed mind disturbs the whole system. One should be always focused in one's work and work hard to make that work perfect so that results are fruitful. We don't need to waste our precious time and energy in something which matters nothing to us at the moment. Just live in your present and work for the betterment of future.
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Gayatri said:   10 years ago
I am with the term let the sleeping dog lie. Because we will get nothing from old conflict. Let the old conflict go to hell and deal with new things and let the dog sleep.
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Nancy said:   1 decade ago
Hi friends what i feel is we should be proper first.that is we should be active enough to expose our talents and then we should talk about others.Next we should not leave others to suffer if they are not in a active mode.we have take responsibility to motivate and stimulate others so that we can unite and make our nation to shine.lets unite together and support others and make them to shine in the future for our nations dignity.
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Karen said:   2 decades ago
Sleeping dogs are people who cause trouble but inactive at the moment..
I support the statement because if we provoke the sleeping dog we are bound to fall in trouble that we have self invited.. So its always better to leave the trouble makers to themselves, completely unaware of your presence so that you don't have to waste your time in dealing with them uselessly..
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SASWATA DUTTA said:   6 years ago
To let sleeping dogs lie means 'To leave as they are'. But we cannot let the things as they are because by the time our needs are changing, demand for things are increasing and cost of living a decent life is increasing, we have work more and make others who are bearing responsibility also work more. So we have to interfere.

As we know human have a great tendency to exempt themselves from work. Everyone wants to get more and more output with less work input. Most of the Politicians of our country are lazy and corrupt, they don't do work properly themselves and also don't let others do things the right way and they often try to avoid investigation in their work by misusing their power. So we have to interfere and make them work honestly or remove them, 'we cannot let the sleeping dog just lie'.

Also in every organization, there is always supervision on a person whether he is topmost or lowermost authority to make the organization work efficiently and smoothly. So if you want to progress you have to interfere in most of the cases.

Thank you.
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