See grease one's gills on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188:",
"text": "He'll give a guinea at the least,\n To grease his gills at city feast:\n But tho' to belly he's so kind,\n Yet not one souse to treat his mind.",
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"ref": "2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day:",
"text": "I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.",
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