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grease
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elbow grease (humorous)
hard work, especially when you are cleaning something. With determination and elbow grease we soon transformed the filthy kitchen.
See also: elbow

grease someone's palm

to give money to someone in authority in order to persuade them to do something for you, especially something wrong. Drug barons were greasing the palm of the chief of police.
See also: palm

like greased lightning (old-fashioned)

if someone does something like greased lightning, they do it very quickly. I mentioned work and he was out of the room like greased lightning.
See also: lightning, like

grease someone's palm
to give someone money to persuade them to do what you want. Some of those candidates spent money greasing the palms of local political bosses.
See also: palm

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Isn't the Cato Institute you quote one of these "free trade," "conservative" think tanks that have helped grease the skids for shipping millions of U.
What it does is grease the skids for biblical literalists by glossing over the real differences Americans perceive about what the Bible is, what it says, and what, if anything, its words mean for our daily lives.
This is a very hot topic in the House and Senate and his tough talk regarding China should grease the skids of his nomination.
 
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