They had to 'grease the palms of' a few inspectors at city hall to get the permits they needed to start building.
They hoped that the tax cuts would 'grease the wheels' of the economy. [=would help the economy work better]
It's going to take some 'elbow grease' to get this counter clean.
(..) Roger? Down here, honey. Morning. Ooh. Whoa. This is gonna take some serious elbow grease. Yeah. Oh, my God. What are we gonna do with all this stuff? Well, we probably ought (..)2013 The Conjuring