See grease the skids on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "greases the skids",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "greasing the skids",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "greased the skids",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "greased the skids",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "grease the skids"
},
"expansion": "grease the skids (third-person singular simple present greases the skids, present participle greasing the skids, simple past and past participle greased the skids)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English predicates",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments."
],
"id": "en-grease_the_skids-en-verb-OFfEJuWU",
"links": [
[
"create",
"create"
],
[
"produce",
"produce"
],
[
"hasten",
"hasten"
],
[
"favorable",
"favorable"
],
[
"development",
"development"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, idiomatic) To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "grease the wheels"
},
{
"word": "pave the way"
},
{
"word": "set the stage"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal"
]
}
],
"word": "grease the skids"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "greases the skids",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "greasing the skids",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "greased the skids",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "greased the skids",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "grease the skids"
},
"expansion": "grease the skids (third-person singular simple present greases the skids, present participle greasing the skids, simple past and past participle greased the skids)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English informal terms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English predicates",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments."
],
"links": [
[
"create",
"create"
],
[
"produce",
"produce"
],
[
"hasten",
"hasten"
],
[
"favorable",
"favorable"
],
[
"development",
"development"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, idiomatic) To create conditions likely to produce or hasten favorable future developments."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "grease the wheels"
},
{
"word": "pave the way"
},
{
"word": "set the stage"
}
],
"word": "grease the skids"
}
Download raw JSONL data for grease the skids meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.