well-oiled
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well-oiled (comparative more well-oiled, superlative most well-oiled)
- (idiomatic) Efficient; efficiently run.
- Synonyms: businesslike; see also Thesaurus:efficient
- 2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- (idiomatic) Drunk.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
- 2024 April 9, “In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft?”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- 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.
References[edit]
- (drunk): Tony Thorne (2014) “well-oiled”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury
- Jonathon Green (2024) “well-oiled adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang