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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. 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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Newmark is buying a portion of the Gale Company, the real estate firm that Mack-Cali purchased last year for $500 million, and the source said the agency work was likely included as an added perk that will grease the wheels of the transaction. To help grease the wheels, Delhi has appointed recently retired Foreign Secretary Shayam Saran as its special envoy in Washington, and President Bush once again has called on Congress to approve the bill without changes. Irony mounted when it was realized that the Board's chambers were named for Kenneth Hahn, the supervisor who frequently trumpeted that he helped grease the wheels that brought the Dodgers to L. |
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