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Brewer's: Nettles
It is ill work plucking nettles with bare hands, or belling the cat. It is ill work to interfere in matters which cannot but prove disagreeable or even worse. In French, “Attacher le grelot.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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