English

Alternative forms

• squeaky wheel gets the oil

Proverb

the squeaky wheel gets the grease

1. 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 9780553374421, p. 13:

     You know perfectly well that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that if you don't complain nothing ever changes.

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• squeaky wheel