Makine, yağdan tıkanmış.
- The machine was clogged with grease.
he is a very successful businessman who smoothly greases the wheels.
Fatcats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
I'm no grease monkey, but I can manage to change out my engine's spark plugs without assistance.
An important legal distinction is the difference between bribery and “grease payments,” which are paid in these countries not to affect someone’s decision-making but to speed the process of dealing with government.
We arrived at Almaty Airport, and from the moment the customs officer made it obvious in his fractured English that our entrance would be made easier if we greased his palm, we realised that all our Anglo-Saxon assumptions about how societies are run were not very relevant here.
When we were young we used to be told, in our house at home, that elbow-grease was the one essential necessary to getting a tough piece of work well done. If a mahogany table was to be made to shine, it was elbow-grease that the operation needed.
You know perfectly well that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that if you don't complain nothing ever changes.