{"id":2110,"date":"2014-11-04T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:23:47","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-the-squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-the-squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions &#8211; The squeaky wheel gets the grease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2112\" alt=\"squeaky_wheel\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel.png\" width=\"502\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel.png 502w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel-190x115.png 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel-280x170.png 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/squeaky_wheel-445x271.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The squeaky wheel gets the grease.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This idiom means that the most noticeable (or loudest) problems (or people) are the ones most likely to get attention. It is alternately expressed as <em>&#8220;The squeaky wheel gets the oil&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The origin of the squeaky wheel idiom\u00a0is unknown, but its current form is attributed to American humorist Josh Billings\u00a0who is said to have popularized it in his putative poem &#8220;The Kicker&#8221; written in 1870.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_squeaky_wheel_gets_the_grease#cite_note-2\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<blockquote><p>I hate to be a kicker,<\/p>\n<p>I always long for peace,<\/p>\n<p>But the wheel that does the squeaking,<\/p>\n<p>Is the one that gets the grease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>However, this poem has been attributed to various authors, anonymous or otherwise, and its provenance has never been verified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The squeaky wheel gets the grease.&#8221; What does it mean? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[630,182,564,191,307,1657,628,629],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-attention","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-idiom","tag-interesting-expression","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-november-2014","tag-squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease","tag-squeaky-wheel-gets-the-oil","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}