grease the wheels

短语

贿赂, 使顺利进行

发音

AU

词形变化

greased the wheels greases the wheels 三单 greases the wheels greasing the wheels greasing the wheels 现在分词 greased the wheels 过去式 greased the wheels 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments.

    习语

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.

来源：wiktionary