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The idiom is: Let sleeping dogs lie.
It means, don't aggravate a person or situation when it is already calm or calmed down.
Example:
"I hate her," Julie fumed three days after a girl insulted her at school. "I'll show her!"
"The principal already took care of the problem," her mother counseled. "She has been expelled for a week and won't be bothering you again--let sleeping dogs lie."
"The welfare office took away $50 in food stamps!"
"Yes, but they didn't make you re-pay them when you earned $300 from your job. It might be better to let sleeping dogs lie."
NOTE 1: The word dogs refer to dogs, not that you are calling someone a dog.
NOTE 2: The word lie, here, means a sleeping dog, and does not mean a person as a liar.
One origin of this idiom is that a dog can be cranky when abruptly awoken, and can attack. So it is better to not disturb the dog.
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