snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches

snitches get stitches and wind 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 wind up in ditches.
See also: and, ditch, get, snitch, stitch, up, wind
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • snitches get stitches (and end 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