pour oil on troubled waters
pour oil on the waters

This is even more important as they are trying to pour oil on troubled waters.

Has a rare ability to pour oil on troubled waters.

I had often heard of pouring oil on troubled waters - now we would see if there was anything in it.

Each time, the Armenian leaders had to step in to pour oil on troubled waters.

If he pours oil on troubled waters, we expect his next move to be the lighting of a match.

Saddam can be relied on to pour oil on troubled waters.

Wise men know how to defuse difficult situations, and pour oil on troubled waters.

Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters, the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait, guided by her husband.

A good man to pour oil on troubled waters

Ronni smiled a light smile, seeking to pour oil on troubled waters.

Grace is love pouring oil on troubled waters.

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, poured oil on troubled waters.

Pouring oil on troubled waters: marine engine emissions.

At first minister's question time, Alex Salmond sought to pour oil on troubled waters.

Once again, his skills were invoked to pour oil on troubled waters so that the fledgling democracy of Bangladesh might be restored.

Cerealis poured oil on troubled waters.

I congratulate the rapporteur on the quality of his amendments and his attempt to pour oil on troubled waters.

He's a mole - the People's Puppet - quietly setting about sabotaging tasks and pouring oil on troubled waters.

N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, inflammation and immunity: pouring oil on troubled waters or another fishy tale?

Sitting at a table between the two men, uncomfortably close to this violent exchange, Patrick O'Dell tried to pour oil on troubled waters.

Jon Casen's spin doctor is coming to pour oil on troubled waters," Matt answered, entering the room bearing a tray. "

A perfectly fine Saturday afternoon--was Hercule Poirot hastened to pour oil on troubled waters.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw, like Commons leader Harriet Harman, has been trying to pour oil on troubled waters.

Certain people are trying to pour oil on troubled waters while others are pouring on fuel, and I'm not talking about the FIA here."

Mr President, if an Irishwoman may intrude on this debate and pour oil on troubled waters, I will confine myself to European topics.

Cordy was the calm one, the patient guy, the one who poured oil on the waters.

There's no point in this," Candra interjected, trying to pour oil on the waters. "

Libya's new chief of staff Salem el-Gnaidy has now arrived in Benghazi to pour oil on the waters.

But he's a clever type, this Winkie, because he's pouring oil on the waters now, saying, 'A birth is a fine thing; two births are two fine!

I have to admire your restraint in expletives," Barry murmured, but before Langan could ask, Horace came up to pour oil on the waters with Charlie right behind him. "

"If I come with a lot of reporters and camera crews, it might look like I want to sensationalize it," he said, "when what I want to do is pour oil on the waters."

Now, if you have the intelligence and the integrity and the fair-mindedness to say something like that to a member of the opposite party you have poured oil on the waters of party; nay, you are in that a wily politician, for you have almost, just in saying that, won over your friend to your own side.