the squeaking wheel gets the grease
- the squeaking wheel gets the grease
Attention is only given to a troublesome person or thing.
a 1937 in J. Bartlett Familiar Quotations 518 The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease.
1948 in B. Stevenson Home Book of Proverbs 2483 I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.
1974 Hansard (Commons) 17 Oct. 502 It is the old story: the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
2001 Washington Times 29 June A20 We are all acquainted with the adage ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease.’ For the past decade or so, liberals have been squeaking loudly and getting more than their fair share of the grease, many times even from Republicans.
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