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

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

No etymology was provided for this word.

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جني تعرفه ولا انسي ما تعرفه — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Libyan Arabic: اللي تعرفه خير من اللي متعرفاش — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Asturian: val más un tontu conocíu qu’un llistu desconocíu — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Catalan: val més un roí conegut que un bo per conèixer — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Finnish: parempi tuttu kuin tuntematon paha — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• French: mieux vaut un mal connu qu'un bonheur incertain — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Galician: máis vale malo coñecido que bo por coñecer — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• German: man weiß, was man hat, aber weiß nicht, was man kriegt — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• German: schlimmer geht immer — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Polish: już lepsze znane zło, niż dobro, które masz poznać — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Romanian: mai bun e un drac știut decât unul necunoscut — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Spanish: más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown
• Spanish: más vale diablo conocido que por conocer — something bad and familiar is better than something bad and unknown