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birds of a feather	C1710, Jonathan Swift, "A Conference," lines 11-12.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
don't shit where you eat	(idiomatic, vulgar) One should not cause trouble in a place, group, or situation in which one regularly finds oneself.1998 April 14, Nelson Navarro, "Ever faithful, ever true," Manila Standard (Philippines) (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):The guiding principle is Don't shit where you eat. Office romances are always destructive of morale and objectivity.2003 Oct. 8, Jonathan Valania, "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Pussy," Philadelphia Weekly (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):Limbaugh was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the NAB convention in, of all places, Philadelphia, thus violating the cardinal law of the animal kingdom: Don't shit where you eat.2006 Sept. 19, Michael Musto, "NY Mirror," Village Voice (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):Mitchell refused to indulge in on-set romances with either gender. "You don't shit where you eat," he told me, plainly.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
due course	A. 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels.	(0.00 / 0 votes)
have other fish to fry	C. 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella, ch. 2, Letter 15.	(0.00 / 0 votes)

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