Grease : v. tr. Coat, rub with a fatty substance.
Grease: give, contribute, provide, gratify.
I will grease you, beat you.
Grease someone's pockets: put money in them.
Lubricate his wife: allusion to the lubrication of the axle so that the car runs better.
The one who, while playing, arranges the cards so as to have the whole game to himself, makes fat; it is an oiler. It is also said to make tallow.
Grease the pot: pay your welcome.
Grease the leg: put a sum from hand to hand, bribe.
Lubricate the train: beat, kick behind. Word for word: grease the rear train (thug jargon).
Lubricate your vagina: get fucked, anoint your asshole with sperm.
Lubricate the boots: kick someone.
Lubricate the wheels: drink. When you grease the wheels, it speeds up the movement… of drunkards.
Grease your bug: large sprinkle of wine.
Grease the boots: flatter, flog, exaggerate.
Grease someone's paw: put money in their hand to obtain (See below).
favors, bribe, bribe, bribe.
Lubricate the intestines: drink.
Lubricate the rear train: kick behind.
Grease someone's boots: kick him.
The expression “to grease the paw”: To bribe (someone) – To give money (to someone) to obtain a favor from them.
In this expression, which dates from the XNUMXth century, the paw is only ever the animal version of main who will receive the money. Moreover, in the XNUMXth century, it was said anoint the palm. For a long time, the concept of gras is associated with that of profit. Indeed, isn't a fat man a symbol of the one who can eat well, therefore the one who has money?
Grease is here a metaphor which marks the ill-gotten profit, as in the old expression, with the form very close to ours, fatten (someone's) hands where fat also symbolizes corruption or illicit gain.