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social lubricant

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  • Alcohol is often called a “social lubricant,�? which I always took to mean that it was friendlier than other lubricants — like that party-pooper, motor oil.

    (The New York Times, Really, It’s the Booze Talking, by Glenn Eichler, December 22, 2008)

    December 27, 2008

  • Hehehe!

    December 27, 2008

  • HA! Good one! Laughed out loud!

    December 27, 2008

  • Or as Ogden Nash put it, famously, in "The Ice-Breaker":

    Candy is dandy

    But liquor is quicker.

    December 27, 2008

  • Alcohol: lubricates social intercourse.

    December 27, 2008