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Help! I can't find any information on the origin of the idiom/expression: Grease someone's palm. Please help me!
Scroll down to the Online Etymology Dictionary at this site. It explains related uses of "grease" and gives a date for the origin of "grease one's palm."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grease
"grease (someone`s) palm
- to pay a person for something done or given, to bribe someone
We had to grease the palm of the customs agent at the border to get our goods into the country."
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Scroll down to the Online Etymology Dictionary at this site. It explains related uses of "grease" and gives a date for the origin of "grease one's palm."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grease
"grease (someone`s) palm
- to pay a person for something done or given, to bribe someone
We had to grease the palm of the customs agent at the border to get our goods into the country."
idiomconnection com/armhand.html
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