Pour-oil-on-troubled-waters Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To calm something or someone who is tenacious or misbehaving.

I better go pour oil on those troubled waters the children are making over there.

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Origin of Pour-oil-on-troubled-waters

From the practice of the ancients to pour oil on the sea waves to calm them.

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