/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Grease One’s Fist or Palm (To)
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To give a bribe.
“Grease my fist with a tester or two, and ye shall find it in your pennyworths.”—Quarles: The Virgin Widow, iv. 1. p. 40.
“S. You must oyl it first.
C. I understand you—
Greaze him iʹ the fist.”
Cartwright: Ordinary (1651).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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