Said of two very dissimilar people, things, points of view, that do not work well together

Trying to have a grandfather and his teen-age grandson agree about social media and hard-rock music is like mixing oil and water: impossible!

Quando si tratta di social e di musica hard-rock, nonni e nipoti adolescenti vanno d'accordo come il diavolo e l'acqua santa

I thought it would be a good idea to invite my friends, die-hard soccer fans, and my snobbish relatives to my birthday party. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water and the party was a fiasco

Pensavo che sarebbe stata una buona idea invitare alla mia festa di compleanno i miei amici, tifosi sfegatati di calcio, e i miei parenti snob, ma purtroppo erano come il diavolo e l'acqua santa e la festa è stata un disastro

He spent his whole life studying history of religions, and if there was a recurrent theme, it was that science and religion had been oil and water since day one: archenemies and unmixable

Ha dedicato la vita intera allo studio della storia delle religioni e ha scoperto che il tema ricorrente è che religione e scienza sono, da sempre, come l'acqua e il fuoco: nemici acerrimi e totalmente incompatibili