mer d'huile

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French

Etymology

Compare English pour oil on troubled waters.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛʁ d‿ɥil/

Noun

mer d’huile f (plural mers d’huile)

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

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