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Oils the wheels

Posted by Geraldine on October 07, 2008 at 10:02

Can anyone suggest when the phrase 'oils the wheels' was first used. I want to use it in a radio drama set in London in 1802. It would have referred to carraiges then if had started to be used - any ideas?

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