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
Ministers from its 164 member nations will meet in Buenos Aires this weekend as the guardian of global commerce seeks to oil the wheels of international trade.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2017
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 made failure to prevent bribery an offence and clamped down on "facilitation payments" and disproportionate hospitality used to oil the wheels of business.
From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2014
He saw all things in a fresh light—the soft carpets, the soft lights, the numberless pleasant, unnecessary things that color the passing landscape and oil the wheels of life.
From The Masquerader by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
