smooth ruffled feathers

They have to smooth ruffled feathers when one person offends another.

Instead of smoothing ruffled feathers, you set them on fire."

He would smooth ruffled feathers here, but is he the one to turn the team around?

And she is also the one the mayor relies on to smooth ruffled feathers or touch the right political bases.

American diplomats had to smooth ruffled feathers in Malaysia, whose government hadn't been consulted.

She refused to waste time smoothing ruffled feathers.

"We will keep you informed, Ambassador," the King said, evidently thinking he had to smooth ruffled feathers.

After the signature, it is prudent to smooth ruffled feathers with a sizable cash gift that says, "Welcome to the family."

He's supposedly off somewhere smoothing ruffled feathers while the bust is going on, and do you know where he is?"

It was equally fascinating watching some taking time off from family chores to preen themselves and smooth ruffled feathers."

In the pause, Ann stepped in, a savvy businesswoman smoothing ruffled feathers.

Before the game asked reporters, with typical sarcasm, what he might say to McRae and Bonilla to smooth ruffled feathers.

City officials had to smooth ruffled feathers just to get the agency - which is responsible for shutting dealers down - to look at the evidence investigators collected.

In this role you are smoothing ruffled feathers, drawing forth other people's skills and creative abilities and, at its most basic, helping people to enjoy themselves.

'It would drive the curators crazy, but Rusty was very adept in smoothing ruffled feathers in situations like that'.

Hoshar Zubairy, Iraq's Kurdish foreign minister, made his first official visit to Syria, partly to try to smooth ruffled feathers.

When Mr. Sheekey started working with the campaign in January, he spent much of his time smoothing ruffled feathers with groups whose support he was hoping to win.

Dax was already smoothing ruffled feathers, since the comm channels were filled with panicked civilians trying to find out what had happened and how soon they could leave DS9.

Paul Lexington and Wallas Ward had had to devote much energy to smoothing ruffled feathers, nobody had got much sleep, and everything was way behind schedule.

The intelligence arm of the State Department, on the other hand, has a diplomatic mission and concentrates on matters of strategic international alliance - like smoothing ruffled feathers after military campaigns.

On two occasions that I know of, Ben had to smooth ruffled feathers over dinner and fine wine with clients who'd caught the Greek with his fingers in the till, borrowing &ek retainers.

Today, Mr. Ford - who first came to work at Ford when he was 22 years old - said he would surround himself with seasoned executives and make it his business to smooth ruffled feathers.

While not discussing specifics of the conversation that smoothed ruffled feathers, Staley suggested that Reid said this: He respected him for sticking by his beliefs, even though he disagreed with his stance.

A smile and a calm tone went a long way toward smoothing ruffled feathers, and from the furious, appalled looks on many of the club members' faces, there were quite a few old birds going bald this afternoon.

MGM, which distributes 20th Century Fox movies, has worked hard to try to smooth ruffled feathers here, a nation of 43 million people that is now the 10th-largest foreign box office territory for American movies.