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bite the hand that feeds you
Idioms and Phrases
Show ingratitude, turn against a benefactor. For example, The college gave me a scholarship, so I shouldn't bite the hand that feeds me and criticize its hiring policies . Used about 600 b.c. by the Greek poet Sappho, this metaphor of a dog biting its master was first recorded in English in 1711.Example Sentences
By 1 p.m., the number of protesters ballooned to several thousand, with some carrying signs that said, “MAGA - Mexicans always get across,†“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,†referring to the state’s agricultural workers, and, “I drink my horchata warm because f ... I.C.E,†a reference to the U.S.
To Gay, it also felt like Garcia was betting against her own team and had violated the cardinal rule of reality TV: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
"Why bite the hand that feeds you?"
“It’s still inherently risky, I think, to bite the hand that feeds you,†Chan said.
“Every artist is understandably nervous to bite the hand that feeds you, even if it doesn’t feed you much,†Hunt said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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