grease the wheels

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments. idiomatic
    — Once a way of greasing the wheels of a gruesome bureaucracy, bribery has now become part of the cost of doing business.

词形变化

greases the wheels present,singular,third-person greasing the wheels participle,present greased the wheels participle,past greased the wheels past

词源

By a metaphor in which facilitating human socioeconomic interaction, or any other process or system, is portrayed as lubricating machinery; in this regard, compare also lubrication payment and social lubricant.
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