(idiomatic) To calm, appease or quieten a person or situation.

Alternative form of squeaky wheel gets the grease

Black people and white people should not form relationships; an admonition against miscegenation. / (more generally) Some people, things or characteristics do not go together.

Alternative form of pour oil on troubled waters

simple past tense and past participle of pour oil on troubled waters

present participle of pour oil on troubled waters

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pour oil on troubled waters

The rape plant, having bright yellow flowers; source of an edible oil

Cloth made from cotton and treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof. / A raincoat made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.

Thick, black smoke from burning oil.