"well-oiled" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "The figurative sense of \"smoothrunning\" is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.",
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      "form": "more well-oiled",
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          "ref": "2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
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          "smoothrunning",
          "smoothrunning"
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          "efficiently",
          "efficient"
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        "(idiomatic) Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "businesslike"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        }
      ],
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          "ref": "2024 April 9, “In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:",
          "text": "Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Drunk."
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        "(idiomatic) Drunk."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "lubricated"
        },
        {
          "word": "lubed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sauced"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
        },
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          "word": "drunk"
        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled."
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  "etymology_text": "The figurative sense of \"smoothrunning\" is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.",
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    },
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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            [
              231,
              242
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          "ref": "2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:",
          "text": "Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Drunk."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Drunk."
      ],
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