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View synonyms for grease the wheels

grease the wheels



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, oil the wheels . Make things run smoothly, as in You can count on Ben to grease the wheels so we'll be waited on promptly . This metaphoric expression transfers literal lubrication to figurative. [Mid-1600s]
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Example Sentences

“By late summer, President Trump starts to grease the wheels for excuses if he lost,” says Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in 2020 as White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president.

That could help Capital One and Discover grease the wheels with regulators and gain approval for the deal because antitrust regulators have long had those payment giants in their crosshairs.

It’s obvious why Amazon would want to grease the wheels of government in the Inland Empire.

Kissinger’s humor ultimately was a weapon he used to grease the wheels for a variety of reasons, many of which were not simply about laughter.

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And there were established relationships between Waterford and Charlton that could help grease the wheels.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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