Sekirov Dictionary

pour oil on troubled waters

verb1

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To calm, appease or quiet a person or situation.
- Tom Street deemed it his duty to pour oil upon the troubled waters, being, as it were, officially responsible for the welfare of the chowder-plates and tobacco-pipes which were hired for the occasion. — 1885

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