| We always try to pour oil on troubled waters and get people to share a common vision of where they want to get to and how they're going to get there. |
| The great diplomat has arrived to pour oil on troubled waters. |
| In a week of such in-house turbulence, the return to first-team duty is a welcome snippet of positive news to pour oil on troubled waters. |
| Juncker's decision to award the crucial finance portfolio to a Briton was intended to pour oil on troubled waters, after David Cameron tried to block Juncker's appointment. |
| Torsten Husén's personal and avuncular disposition, which did much to pour oil on troubled waters, should also be mentioned. |
| In the end we decided the best thing for him to do is to soldier on, to pour oil on troubled waters in liberal quantities and to live with the problem. |
