oil the wheels
Example Sentences
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She’s given you this money to oil the wheels of your own ingenuity, and you’ve begun doing just that.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
But according to Dr Nikita Ved, from the 1928 Institute, their legacy would not only be "to oil the wheels of Indian independence but to lay the foundation stones for contemporary British Asians".
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2021
Even animal welfare is sensitive in a proposed accord where both sides would recognize each others standards to oil the wheels of commerce.
From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2014
This tougher law introduced an offence of failure to prevent bribery, and clamps down on "facilitation payments" and disproportionate hospitality to oil the wheels of business.
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2012
I was born into a slow world, and I wished to oil the wheels and gear, so that the machine would spin faster and, withal, to better purposes.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
