better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

English

Alternative forms

• better the devil you know
• better the devil you know than the devil you don't
• better the devil you know than the one you don't
• better the devil you know than the one you don't know
• the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know (rare)
• the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
• the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
• the devil we know is better than the devil we don't
• the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know

Proverb

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

1. Something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown.

Translations

something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown

• Arabic: جني تعرفه ولا انسي ما تعرفه (Yemeni Proverb)

  Libyan Arabic: اللي تعرفه خير من اللي متعرفاش

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未知的危險比已知的危險更加可怕／未知的危险比已知的危险更加可怕 (wèizhī de wēixiǎn bǐ yǐzhī de wēixiǎn gèngjiā kěpà) (no equivalent exists; lit., "unknown dangers are more terrifying than known dangers")

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• Finnish: parempi tuttu kuin tuntematon paha
• German: man weiß, was man hat, aber weiß nicht, was man kriegt, schlimmer geht immer
• Polish: już lepsze znane zło, niż dobro, które masz poznać
• Romanian: mai bun e un drac știut decât unul necunoscut
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• Spanish: más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer (es), más vale diablo conocido que por conocer
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