Somehow the engine was throwing less oil now than it had thrown before.

I don't want to keep throwing oil away.

How, my lord, can throwing oil on the fire help to extinguish it?

He throws oil on the flames of Jerusalem.

As Maris got closer to the record, it seemed that every day another former ballplayer threw oil on the fire.

I undertook to throw oil on the troubled waters.

"We need to pluck more fresh, green grass from the latest crater," Ilmarinen said, throwing oil on the fire.

So it is extraordinarily important for us not to throw oil on the fire.

"One does not fight fire by throwing oil on it," he began.

Spilled oil, thrown oil: I may have a leaky head gasket.