1. Luckily Joseph was able to grease a few palms, thus helping his brother to escape. 2. So McCloy greased your palm a bit to walk home with Hatton and catch him unawares. 3. Joseph was able to grease a few palms, thus helping his brother to escape. 4. But if you want to impress the head waiter, forget about greasing his palm. 5. Grease the palm. 6. He is accused of selling out future economic health just to grease the palms of defense contractors. 7. If Chicago or New Orleans gave a team a deal like this, everybody would want to know whose palms were greased. 8. Insults, it seems, are easier to bear when the palm is so thickly greased. 9. Local partners or franchise-holders of foreign firms are typically middlemen who oil cogs and grease palms so that the outsiders can get on with selling their goods. 10. The new chairs in many cases are challengers who bought the votes of fellow Republican members by greasing their palms with campaign cash wrung from corporate lobbyists. |