the squeaky wheel gets the grease

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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, 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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