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  • Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.

  • I'm Feifei.

  • Neil: And I'm Neil.

  • So come on Feifei,

  • you've been grumpy all morning

  • what's upset you?

  • Feifei: We have a new tea-making rota,

  • and it seems that Rob will be making less tea than me.

  • Neil: Are you sure?

  • Feifei: Yes. Look!

  • Feifei -

  • Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon,

  • Thursday morning and every other Friday.

  • Rob - just Wednesday morning.

  • This tea-making rota is so unfair.

  • I'm really going to complain about this

  • at the next team meeting.

  • He always has it easy.

  • Neil: Is it that important Feifei?

  • If I were you, I'd let sleeping dogs lie.

  • You could make things worse.

  • Feifei: Let sleeping dogs lie?

  • You mean 'leave things as they are to avoid causing

  • trouble or restarting an old argument'?

  • Neil: Exactly!

  • We had this argument before and the

  • result was this new tea-making rota.

  • So, just like avoiding waking up a dog

  • and making it angry,

  • let sleeping dogs lie.

  • Feifei: Let's hear some more examples of this phrase….

  • Examples: I was going to mention the argument we had

  • last night,

  • but decided to let sleeping dogs lie.

  • Let's not go over last night's performance:

  • let sleeping dogs lie and move on.

  • Don't remind her about the divorce.

  • Let sleeping dogs lie and talk about something else.

  • Feifei: This is The English We Speak from the BBC

  • and we're finding out about the phrase

  • 'let sleeping dogs lie',

  • meaning to 'leave a situation as it is and

  • avoid causing trouble or restarting an old problem'.

  • That's all very well,

  • but it still seems unfair that I'm the one

  • who has to make tea the most.

  • Neil: Come on, Feifei.

  • Can't you remember why we had a new tea-making rota?

  • It was because Rob makes such awful tea,

  • that we wanted him to make less of it!

  • Feifei: Oh, yes!

  • Rob does make awful tea.

  • You're right Neil, it's not worth making a fuss

  • - we definitely don't want Rob

  • to be making our tea too often.

  • Neil: Yes. Let sleeping dogs lie.

  • Feifei: But hold on.

  • I didn't see your name on the rota.

  • Shouldn't you be making tea?

  • I thought you were keeping quiet.

  • You never make tea!

  • I'm going to say something about this.

  • Neil: Don't wake up the sleeping dogs.

  • I'll go and make some tea now, ok?

  • Bye.

  • Feifei: Bye.

  • And don't forget, two sugars!

Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.

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寝ている犬を寝かせてみよう:私たちが話す英語 (Let sleeping dogs lie: The English We Speak)

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    吃v的春天 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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