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It is used to suggest for choosing familiar something/ situation even unconvinient than deal with something new/ change with a risk leading to the worse one.
Dealing with something or someone you're familiar with even if it's horrible is better than dealing with something or someone else that is also horrible. At least when you're familiar with something it makes the expectations and cautions higher.
This is the shortened form of the full idiom, 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't', and means that it is often better to deal with someone or something you are familiar with and know, even if they are not ideal, than take a risk with an unknown person or thing.
Better deal with the people you know and are aware of their capabilities rather than people you don't know and are not aware of what they are capable of.
said when you think it is wiser to deal with someone familiar, although you do not like them, than to deal with someone who you do not know, who might be worse
commonly referred as It is better to deal with something bad you know than with something new you don't know. better the devil you know than the devil you don't'.
"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know." Meaning it's easier to deal with something you know and are familiar with since it brings no risk.
Sometimes it is better to stay with familar surroundings or people rather than exchange them for something you dont know
Choose to deal with a Familiar one instead of an Unknown even though he is unrealistic.
trust should be earned so it means that be careful who is you going to trust
