单词 | smooth someone's ruffled feathers |
释义 | smooth someone's ruffled feathersMake someone less angry or irritated by using soothing words: twenty minutes later, after a diplomatic phone call, she had succeeded in smoothing Henri’s ruffled feathers...
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