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The hand that feeds 

Trent told me not to bite the hand that feeds.

Bite the hand that feeds you 

1: Turn on someone that has supported you.

2: Turn against a benefactor, a friend or a supporter.

3: Repay support with wrong.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. You may need that hand one day.

bite the hand that feeds 

1) To stab someone in the back.
2) The hand that feeds is the name of a wicked song off of the Nine Inch Nails cd "With Teeth".
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
bite the hand that feeds by JonnyG January 10, 2006

dont bite the hand that feeds you 

When someone purposely turns his/her bck on the certain someone that has been there for them in more ways than one. Supported taught cared for Just so they would or could make themselves look better or be important.
You stepped on my toes for a come up after everything I have done for you, didnt ur momma tell you , dont bite the hand that feeds you.

bite the hand that feeds 

Another term used for "backstabbing", but especially referring to a subordinate individual that attempts to combat, or retaliate against, the powers that make/made him what he is.
"Osama Bin Laden tried to bite the hand that fed him by destroying the WTC (supposedly the CIA trained Osama for a Soviet invasion against Afghanistan). He'll pay for that, to say the least."
-me
bite the hand that feeds by Dave March 28, 2004

Don’t Feed the Hand That Bites you 

Don’t help someone who will try and harm or harass you.
Like being nice villagers in remote country who then attack you and as it suits them to receive aid and simultaneously fight you.
I told him Don’t Feed the Hand That Bites you as he was trying to to get on the good side of his upstairs neighbor that promptly dumped coffee on his laundry.
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