well-oiled en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
The figurative sense of smoothrunning is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.
Meanings
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(idiomatic) Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run.
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.
2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times:
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(idiomatic) Drunk.
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.
2024 April 9, “In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: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.
2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more well-oiled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most well-oiled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Relateds
underoiled · overoiled · well-oiled machine
Synonyms
lubed up · out of sight · feeling no pain · adrip · worse for wear · tuned · inebriate · crocked · inter pocula · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · bingoed · befuddled · lathered · smashed · overrefreshed · jaked · canned · pickled · parlatic · blue · mad with it · corned · dead drunk · three sheets to the wind · loose · stotious · besotted · a sheet in the wind's eye · bladdered · inebriated · whittled · wobbly · tight · a sheet in the wind · bottled · clobbered · fuckfaced · high as a kite · liquory · strut · blind · tanked · shicker · beliquored · slizzard · tight as a tick · ebriose · soused · how came you so · mabok · groggy · aled up · efficacious · inebrious · sloppy drunk · bungfu · muggy · blasted · have drink taken · snozzled · tipsy · woozy · fuzzy-minded · potent · cockeyed · ripped · zonked · schloshed · lubed · blewed · cup-shotten · lubed · ginned · efficient · temulentive · trashed · monged · rolling · Brahms · cut · skunked · plowed · looped · fresh · overcome · wazzocked · drunk as a piper · fershnickered · scuttered · ploughed · out of one's head · pixilated · twisted · high · half polluted · full · gesuip · sodden · spanceled · cunted · toping · tanked up · stoned · shitty · fuddled · lushed · blocked · hooched up · sprung · disguised · sozzly · slarmied · potshot · rubbered · snockered · langered · muddled · legless · wellied · jarred · Oliver Twist · juiced up · floored · temulent · nimptopsical · larruped · tilted · wet · razzled · squiffed · worse for liquor · on the ran tan · in liquor · in one's cups · wazzed · blind drunk · in the bag · flush · flooey · Adrian Quist · lashed · fou · shedded · scammered · pie-eyed · bibulous · stoated · newted · bedrunken · fluted · crapulous · sauced · juiced · drunked up · drunk · soaken · nappy · obfuscated · gattered · in one's altitudes · muzzy · potted · hosed · efficient · tippled · shickered · kaylied · throwed · fuzzy-headed · sozzled · blottoed · bibacious · out of it · maggot · three sheets in the wind · maudlin · Brahms and Liszt · shellacked · fap · liquored up · budgy · off one's tits · blootered · mortalled · raddled · zooted · cup-shot · munted · fried · arseholed · lubricated · burlin' · lit · ripe · in the drink · souped-up · hooted · snuffy · well-oiled · elephant's trunk · stewed · plastered · schnockered · soshed · businesslike · top-heavy · flustered · fuckered up · screwed · sotted · stinking · spannered · off one's head · half seas over · fluthered · faced · lamped · economical · hoovered · cocked · quisby · ebriated · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · mullered · binned · oiled up · sloshed · blitzed · bollocksed · destroyed · besotten · elephant's · lash · primed · mortal · wrecked · impaired · kettled · out of one's box · steamboats · drunken · insobrietous · spiffed · MWI · hazed · gassed · twatfaced · overtaken · zotzed · bosky · pounded · groggified · kisky · insober · gee-eyed · withered · slammed · all mops and brooms · splashed · puggled · flushed · zoned · spongy · four sheets in the wind · sauced up · loaded · toasted · langers · hog-whimpering · stonkered · mashed · bevvied · sewed up · messed up · Oliver · Mozart and Liszt · lubricated · maggoted · swacked · glorious · hammered · honkers · sottish · top-heavy with drink · half cut · ratfaced · medicated · bombed · paralytic · oiled · sauced · loopy · gished · out of one's face · obliviated · frosted · boozy · ossified · off one's box · polluted · snookered · tired and emotional · bungalowed · wastey · zorched · half lit