Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.

It would have taken a long time to get permission to build a new house but fortunately my father knew the chairman of the planning committee and that helped to oil the wheels a bit.

  1. make a hash

  2. hail up curtains

  3. make things easier

  4. ghettoise the positions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Oil the wheels is an idiom used in many ways but in this question the direct sense of the idiom is 'helping to make the things go' or making the things easier. This is verbatim in (3) option.

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