grease someone's palm/fist, to

grease someone's palm

and oil someone's palm

Fig. to bribe someone. If you want to get something done around here, you have to grease someone's palm. I'd never oil a police officer's palm. That's illegal.

grease someone's palm/fist, to

To bribe someone; also, to give a gratuity. This term has been around since the sixteenth century, and apparently a version of it was known even in Roman times, when Pliny the Younger called it unguentarium, translated as “ointment money” (Epistles, ca. a.d. 98). “Wyth golde and grotes they grese my hande,” wrote John Skelton (Magnyfycence, ca. 1529).

词组	grease someone's palm/fist, to
释义	grease someone's palm/fist, to grease someone's palm and oil someone's palm Fig. to bribe someone. If you want to get something done around here, you have to grease someone's palm. I'd never oil a police officer's palm. That's illegal. See also: grease, palm McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. grease someone's palm/fist, to To bribe someone; also, to give a gratuity. This term has been around since the sixteenth century, and apparently a version of it was known even in Roman times, when Pliny the Younger called it unguentarium, translated as “ointment money” (Epistles, ca. a.d. 98). “Wyth golde and grotes they grese my hande,” wrote John Skelton (Magnyfycence, ca. 1529). See also: grease, palm The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: palm oil palm-oil for (the) want of (something) for want of something oil up lease (something) to (someone or something) lease to midnight burn the midnight oil burn the midnight oil, to
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