snitches get stitches (and end up in ditches)
snitches get stitches (and end up in ditches)
People who inform to police or tattle to authority figures will be the targets of retaliatory violence. You'd better just go ahead and forget what you saw, Tom. Remember, snitches get stitches and end up in ditches. A: "I saw you take Sally's lunch money! I'm telling the teacher!" B: "Snitches get stitches, Timmy!"
See also: end, get, snitch, stitch, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches
- tattle
- going to tattle
- stool on (one)
- stool on someone
- inform on
- inform on (one)
- inform against (one)
- borrow trouble
- buy trouble