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Pour Oil on Troubled Waters – English Idiom

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Pour Oil on Troubled Waters Pour Oil on Troubled Waters to make peace among people or stop a quarrel, reconcile, put people back on friendly terms, end conflict between people, calm someone down, settle down, quiet down, conciliate, pacify, appease, mollify, placate, soothe, resolve: There was such hostility between the two political parties that no one could pour oil on troubled waters and end their...

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