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Hello and welcome to Neil. So come on, Faye Faye, you've been grumpy all morning. What's upset you?

We have a new tea-making rotor and it seems that Rob will be making less tea than me.

Are you sure? Yes. Look, Faye Faye Faye, Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning and every other Friday.

Rob, just Wednesday morning.

This team making Rotor is so unfair.

I'm really going to complain about this at the next team meeting.

He always has it easy.

Is it that important, Faye-Fay?

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

You could make things worse? Let sleeping dogs lie? You mean leave things as they

are to avoid causing trouble or restarting an old argument. Exactly. We had this argument before and the result was this new tea-making rotor.

So just like avoiding waking up a dog and making it angry, let sleeping dogs lie.

Let's hear some more examples of this phrase.

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.

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