well-oiled

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run. idiomatic
    — Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition.
  2. Drunk. idiomatic
    — Well, in 2000, a pair of well-oiled strangers hit the news and were arrested – after groping each other and undressing on a transatlantic flight – but it’s usually less extreme, as with the couple who were intensely snogging in 2020.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled.

词形变化

more well-oiled comparative most well-oiled superlative

词汇关系

相关词
overoiled underoiled well-oiled machine

词源

The figurative sense of smoothrunning is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.
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