What does it mean to "Stick to the devil you know"?
I think Rudyard Kipling wrote the phrase in "The Copybook Gods".
If you have a choice of bad situations, deal with the one that you’re familiar with. Take advantage of your experience when working out problems.
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If you have a choice of bad situations, deal with the one that you’re familiar with. Take advantage of your experience when working out problems.
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If you know that devil, at least it’s familiar and you have a chance of handeling it… If it is not familiar how are you to know if you can deal with it?
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Do what you are good doing.
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It means that it is better to deal with things that you know about as opposed to things you don’t know about.
Dealing with known problems (devil) is always easier than unknown problems.
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Sometimes the thing you fear is better than the alternative.
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It means if you have nothing but bad choices go with the familiar bad choice, at least you can anticipate the outcome.
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Don’t remember the original source, but it means it is better to choose the known adversary over the unknown one. Often you can deal with the known over the unknown. Familiarity with a foe, can assist in bargaining or defeating a foe.
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