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单词 smooth someone's ruffled feathers
释义

smooth someone's ruffled feathers

Make 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...
  • I muttered darkly, not liking the fact that he so easily smoothed my ruffled feathers.
  • He shook his head and laughed in merriment as if to smooth Big Freddie's ruffled feathers.
  • A little lie would indubitably make things all better, smooth Jake's ruffled feathers, and make everything in my life shiny again.
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