More on "Squeaky Wheel"

[Fred Shapiro]

I have just found something a little earlier for "squeaky wheel":

I hate to be a kicker,
For it does not make for peace,
But the wheel that does the squeaking
Is the wheel that does the grease.
        Quoted as "ANON." by Ring Lardner in Chicago Daily Tribune, 6 July
1913

Fred Shapiro


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