We see him smoothing things over when arguments break out.

They'd love to hear from you, and it would smooth things over a little for a quick passage.

But there ain't any love to smooth things down and it's a poor way of living.

Mr Houston, sitting at the kitchen table, tried to smooth things over for me.

But no cigar is going to smooth things over right now.

"I tried to get out of it," Lonnie said in an effort to smooth things.

Because that might only smooth things over for a time.

Whatever happens, somebody's going to have to be on-site to smooth things with the Turkish government.

The old soldier had smoothed things over a lot and Mike knew it.

But the convention made it necessary to smooth such things over.