social lubricant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A food, beverage, drug or activity that helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions. idiomatic
    — Beer's qualities as a “social lubricant” should play an important role in the debate on the harms of alcohol, according to the boss of Heineken.

词形变化

social lubricants plural

词源

By a metaphor in which facilitating human social interaction is portrayed as lubricating machinery (e.g., oiling the gears, greasing the wheels); in this regard, compare also lubrication payment.
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