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mer d'huile

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French

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Etymology

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Compare English pour oil on troubled waters.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mer d’huile f (plural mers d’huile)

  1. (figuratively) a glassy, waveless sea; a dead calm, a flat calm, a clock calm
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