It is ill work plucking nettles with bare hands, or belling the cat. It is ill work to interefere in matters which cannot but prove disagreeable or even worse. In French, “Attacher le grelot.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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