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grease the wheels
verb as in assist
verb as in facilitate
Example Sentences
“By late summer, President Trump starts to grease the wheels for excuses if he lost,” says Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in 2020 as White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president.
That could help Capital One and Discover grease the wheels with regulators and gain approval for the deal because antitrust regulators have long had those payment giants in their crosshairs.
It’s obvious why Amazon would want to grease the wheels of government in the Inland Empire.
Kissinger’s humor ultimately was a weapon he used to grease the wheels for a variety of reasons, many of which were not simply about laughter.
And there were established relationships between Waterford and Charlton that could help grease the wheels.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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