oil and water | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Two things which are incapable ofmixingorcoexistingharmoniouslywith each other.1982, Winston Graham,The Miller's Dance‎[1], Pan Books, published2008,→ISBN:We areoil and water. There are few things he and I agree on but I believe we would agree on this.2009, Brian Schofield,Selling Your Father's Bones: America's 140-Year War against the Nez Perce Tribe, Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,page31:[…]second, that the white and red man wereoil and water, incapable of safely sharing a landscape.2011, Loretta M. Siani,The Alchemy of Prayer: How It Began and Why It Is the Medium of Miracles, iUniverse,→ISBN,page47:Forgiveness and making bargains areoil and water. They don't mix.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:oil and water.

Examples:

EN: I claim oil and water don't mix.
ES: Yo digo que el aceite y el agua no se mezclan.
EN: We're gonna pick up provisions... oil and water for this tub we got in tow.
ES: Haremos lo mismo. Levantaremos provisiones, combustible y agua para la chalana que nos sigue.
EN: Now, you've spent enough time around engines to know that oil and water won't mix.
ES: Ahora, has pasado bastante tiempo en los motores para saber que el aceite y el agua no se mezclan.
EN: I know oil and water don't mix.
ES: Sé que somos diferentes.
EN: But i don't think that women and business mix any more than oil and water. We poor, helpless women certainly have to fight for our place in your man's world, don't we?
ES: Bueno, Jim sabe mucho más de negocios que yo pero disculpe que se lo diga yo sé más sobre mujeres que...
EN: Fill 'er up? No, just look at the oil and water.
ES: - No, échele un vistazo al aceite.
EN: Your mother and me, it's like oil and water. We don't mix.
ES: Tu madre y yo somos come el aceite y el agua, no nos mezclamos.
EN: But you're still going to have to stop for gas, oil and water.
ES: Sí, pero habrá que detenerse para echar gasolina, aceite y agua.
EN: It's oil and water.
ES: Son como agua y aceite.
EN: I baptise them, christen them, confirm them, hear their confessions, give absolution, last rites, bless their remains, fill the tank, check the oil and water, take off again and pray.
ES: Bautizo a mis fieles, los hago cristianos, los confirmo oigo sus confesiones, les doy la absolucion, la extremauncion, bendigo a los que quedan lleno el tanque, reviso el aceite y el agua, me marcho y rezo.
EN: Tybald, get oil and water to the roof.
ES: Tybald, trae agua y aceite del tejado.
EN: One deciliter of oil and water for the radiator which is hot of course, because the motor is...
ES: Un decilitro de aceite de rodaje y agua para el radiador está calinte naturalmente, porque el motor está...
EN: You and the Romans are like oil and water.
ES: Tú y los romanos sois como agua y aceite.
EN: Because oil and water don't mix.
ES: Porque el aceite y el agua no se mezclan.
EN: - Eh, oil and water okay?
ES: - ¿Aceite, agua, están bien?

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