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squeaky
(redirected from squeakily)

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squeaking wheel gets the oil and squeaky wheel gets the oil
Prov. People who complain the most will get attention or what they want. If you don't get good service at the hotel, make sure to tell the manager that you're dissatisfied. The squeaking wheel gets the oil.
See also: get, oil, squeak, wheel
squeaky clean 
1. someone who is squeaky clean is completely good and honest and never does anything bad Journalists have been trying to discover whether the Senator really is as squeaky clean as he claims to be.
2. completely clean I love the squeaky clean feel of my hair after I've washed it.
See also: clean
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So orangs whistle and lie squeakily about their size, but the final part of the news trilogy concerns another sound which makes the whole business still more intriguing: the orang laugh.
Monkeying around.. by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
diplomacy, which for most of the Castro regime's 50 years has been carried out squeakily through mutual "interest sections" operating from third-party nations, is overdue for a rust-scraping -- despite Washington's insistence on, and Havana's resistance to, evidence of real freedom and democracy on the island.
OUR VIEW; A POSTAL APPROACH TO U.S.-CUBA THAW by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
It was squeakily, stupidly, absurdly, painfully tight.
Johno masters art of understatement as Wilko hits heights by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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