English Explanatory Dictionary

if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Spending time with undesirable individuals will cause one to acquire their undesirable traits.

Word forms

if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas

Related words

if you fly with the crows, you get shot with the crows one bad apple can spoil the barrel water seeks its own level who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
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