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Well-oiled
adj
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Adjective
- 1 Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run. idiomatic
"Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition."
- 2 Drunk. idiomatic
"Well, in 2000, a pair of well-oiled strangers hit the news and were arrested – after groping each other and undressing on a transatlantic flight – but it’s usually less extreme, as with the couple who were intensely snogging in 2020."
- 3 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled.
Etymology
The figurative sense of "smoothrunning" is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.
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