| 单词 | pour oil on troubled waters |
| 释义 | pour oil on troubled waters to calm or defuse a heated situation [associated with the physical phenomenon of stormy waves subsiding when oil is poured on them. The practice was a topic of discussion by the Royal Society in 1774, but the phrase, which is also found in an earlier form pour oil on the waves (reminiscent of stories about St Aidan and St Nicholas), probably has an older origin, since similar phenomena are recorded at much earlier dates]Main Entry: pour |
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