If you ~ a problem or difficulty, you solve it, especially by talking to the people concerned.
Baker was smoothing out differences with European allies...
It’s O.K. I smoothed things out.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
If you ~ a problem or difficulty, you solve it, especially by talking to the people concerned.
Baker was smoothing out differences with European allies...
It’s O.K. I smoothed things out.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012