squeaky wheel gets the grease
English
Alternative forms
- squeaky wheel gets the oil
Proverb
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
- The person who complains or speaks up most loudly receives the redress or attention which he or she seeks.
- 1995, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley, A Farce To Be Reckoned With, Bantam, →ISBN, p. 13:
- You know perfectly well that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that if you don't complain nothing ever changes.
- 1995, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley, A Farce To Be Reckoned With, Bantam, →ISBN, p. 13:
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Translations
the person who complains most receives the attention
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