"well-oiled" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "The figurative sense of \"smoothrunning\" is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more well-oiled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most well-oiled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "well-oiled machine"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "80 8 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 10 4",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 6 3",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
      ],
      "id": "en-well-oiled-en-adj--RoVa56p",
      "links": [
        [
          "Well-run",
          "well-run"
        ],
        [
          "smoothrunning",
          "smoothrunning"
        ],
        [
          "efficiently",
          "efficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "businesslike"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Drunk."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Drunk."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lubricated"
        },
        {
          "word": "lubed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sauced"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled."
      ],
      "id": "en-well-oiled-en-adj-tmgp6TcD",
      "links": [
        [
          "well",
          "well#Adverb"
        ],
        [
          "oiled",
          "oiled#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The figurative sense of \"smoothrunning\" is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more well-oiled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most well-oiled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "well-oiled machine"
    }
  ],
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
      ],
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        [
          "Well-run",
          "well-run"
        ],
        [
          "smoothrunning",
          "smoothrunning"
        ],
        [
          "efficiently",
          "efficient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "businesslike"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        },
        {
          "word": "efficient"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Drunk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Drunk."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lubricated"
        },
        {
          "word": "lubed"
        },
        {
          "word": "sauced"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English links with manual fragments"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "well",
          "well#Adverb"
        ],
        [
          "oiled",
          "oiled#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
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