well-oiled machine

短语

词形变化

well-oiled machines 复数 well-oiled machines

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something that operates capably through the effective coordination of many parts.

    比喻 习语

    run like a well-oiled machine

    Our office runs like a well-oiled machine.

    Our office is a well-oiled machine.

    The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well-oiled, machine.

词源

The figurative sense is an extension from the literal sense.

来源：wiktionary