better the devil you know
成語所屬單字devil
better the devil you know — 慣用語
1. It is wiser to stay in a familiar bad situation than to move to a new one that c
1.慣用語
釋義
已知的惡魔比未知的惡魔好（寧可忍受熟悉的壞處，也不願冒險面對更大的未知風險）
It is wiser to stay in a familiar bad situation than to move to a new one that could be much worse.
例句
I stayed at the boring job because better the devil you know than a new company that might be worse.
Mayumi decided not to switch clinics — better the devil you know, she told herself.