Idioms

pour oil on troubled waters
to calm down a quarrel, to say something to lessen anger and bring peace to a situation
The teachers tried to pour oil on troubled waters when they saw the fight among the students.

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  • pour out
  • pour out one's heart to (someone)
  • pouring rain
  • power behind the throne
  • powers that be
  • praise (someone or something) to the skies
  • preach to the converted
  • precious few/little
  • prelude to (something)
  • press one's luck
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  • seeing is believing
  • out of service
  • lead (someone) down the garden path
  • take it easy
  • a ripple of excitement
  • run into (an amount of money or something)
  • in and out
  • throw up one's hands (in defeat)
  • shut (something) off or shut off (something)
  • stop short of (doing something)


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