grease someone’s palm

tv. to pay someone a bribe. I had to grease the clerk’s palm in order to get the job done.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Re	RAY	Egyptian Mythology
Herring	['heriŋ]
Koray	-	Turkish
Matthijs	-	Dutch
Vashti	VASH-tee (English)	Biblical
Rupert	RUY-pərt (Dutch), ROO-pərt (English), RUW-pert (Polish)	German, Dutch, English, Polish