oiling the wheels (verb) lubricate: make slippery
Sinonime: Philistine, Tory,
conservative,
convinced, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist,
firm, fogyish, immovable,
inflexible, intransigent, old-line,
orthodox, reactionary,
right, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed
Antonime: compromising, conceding,
flexible