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oil and water en · NOUN

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  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) Two things which are incapable of mixing or coexisting harmoniously with each other.
    • […] second, that the white and red man were oil and water, incapable of safely sharing a landscape. 2009, Brian Schofield, Selling Your Father's Bones: America's 140-Year War against the Nez Perce Tribe, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:
    • We are oil and water. There are few things he and I agree on but I believe we would agree on this. 1982, Winston Graham, The Miller's Dance, Pan Books, published 2008, →ISBN:
    • Forgiveness and making bargains are oil and water. They don't mix. 2011, Loretta M. Siani, The Alchemy of Prayer: How It Began and Why It Is the Medium of Miracles, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:

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oil and water don't mix

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