Todays proverb is "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount". The imagery here is quite vivid as we can imagine that someone has managed to get on a tiger but is now afraid to get off because they know the tiger will turn on them and attack them. The best they can do at this point is to just hang on. The meaning behind this proverb is that once you have begun something dangerous it may actually be more dangerous to stop this action and so the idea is that the smarter or safer thing to do is to carry through with it. A common area we see this proverb put into practice is when someone starts to lie and continue in the lie expecting that they will come out unscathed. Of course the best course of action is to stay off the tiger in the first place. We must consider the consequences of everything we start.
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