bite the hand that feeds you

To Gay, it also felt like Garcia was betting against her own team and had violated the cardinal rule of reality TV: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

"Why bite the hand that feeds you?"

“It’s still inherently risky, I think, to bite the hand that feeds you,” Chan said.

“Every artist is understandably nervous to bite the hand that feeds you, even if it doesn’t feed you much,” Hunt said.

“The familiar sayings of ‘Don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ and ‘Be careful what you ask for’ come to the forefront of one’s mind under these circumstances.”