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Meanings of pour oil in English

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Usage of pour oil in English
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For the shoot, she wanted us to pour oil on each other.
How to make love like a porn star
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Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and shalt pour oil upon it.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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Well, I will pour oil on my head and go off to sleep.
Meditations
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I, also, tried to reason with Max and pour oil on his wound.
Strange True Stories of Louisiana
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But then Whitney would always come and pour oil over troubled waters, he said.
Ebony
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Manners, long tried in such occasions, was about to pour oil on the waters.
Richard Carvel — Volume 05
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It was then that Mr. Plimpton gathered courage to pour oil on the waters.
The Inside of the Cup — Volume 07
8
We'll make a nice pile of the whole lot and pour oil over it.
Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
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You are angelic creatures, and would pour oil and wine into my wounded spirit.
The Letters of Robert Burns
10
A star lit, and nobody to pour oil in to keep the wick burning?
The Great Doctrines of the Bible
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Sarah looked threatening, so Hugh hastened to " pour oil on troubled waters."
The Chums of Scranton High / Or, Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
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Lagarde will need all her fabled diplomatic skills to pour oil over such troubled waters.
Reuters
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I desire to pour oil on the waters, to produce harmony, peace and quiet here.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3
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In vain Count Zinzendorf, longing for peace, endeavoured to pour oil on the raging waters.
A History of the Moravian Church
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Mary said, trying to pour oil on troubled waters, There's been nothing more in the newspapers.
An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
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All they did was pour oil on the flames, make the situation sharper and radicalize the protests.
Reuters
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