As you point out, it's not quite a well-oiled machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006] Reference

A well-oiled clock could not have worked more smoothly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"Something like a well-oiled and lightly cooked piece of beef.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

Life runs on such smooth and well-oiled wheels for all humanity in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference

The Mexico Fox inherits is far from being a well-oiled corporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking The Reins] Reference

And that's really -- I mean the U.N. is hardly a well-oiled machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006] Reference

And we're just a well-oiled machine, and we're (UNINTELLIGIBLE) together.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dr. Laura Discusses Her New Television Show - September 6, 2000] Reference

The good news about dating Tom Cruise is he is a very well-oiled machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2005] Reference

For a disorganization, the Red Hat Society runs like a well-oiled machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red and Purple Buying Machine] Reference

Place in well-oiled pans or muffin tins, with a cut surface resting on the pan.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

The country's Olympic machinery is well-oiled for Beijing, as our John Vause reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2008] Reference

So it is not simply a very well-oiled machine in Baghdad that we sometimes think it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2002] Reference

Here we're looking at 24 hours, churning those tapes out like a well-oiled P.R. machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference

I feel like we have a well-oiled machine, and things have gone -- so far, very well for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference

Have ready a well-oiled mold, pour the cream into it, and let it remain until perfectly set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

It opened with a welcoming moan of old but well-oiled hinges, and he indicated I should go first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Record of a Living Being] Reference

McCARTHY: Further inland, food is being distributed, but it is anything but a well-oiled machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistani Flood Victims Cope Without Bridges, Aid] Reference

This from an administration which, for years, analysts were saying, you know, was -- was so well-oiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2006] Reference

WILLIS: With two well-oiled teams supporting him, Joe Nemechek has no plans to slow down any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference

You'll study the maps, hone your aim, and your team will move like a well-oiled, monster-killing machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

"Fifty cents," was the reply of a personage whose florid countenance and well-oiled locks looked unctuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

The team of workers moved, bearing their burden of almost bodiless, mushroom brain like well-oiled machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

Organizers hope this Web site is going to be part of what they promise will be a well-oiled machine in August.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2008] Reference

Above all, North Korea seems to be a well-oiled dictatorship where everybody knows the rules and plays by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside A New Nuclear Nemesis] Reference

We have a great, well-oiled machine right now and hopefully nobody and no thing will throw a monkey wrench in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&Amp;A: Chasing Freddy] Reference

It was therefore popular from the first, and the new policy went through Congress as though on well-oiled wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

SANCHEZ: So, it's like two well-oiled machines going kind of at each other, both of them really at their apex, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] Reference

KOPPEL: I would say that, I'll just use this week as an example; the Israelis are a very well-oiled machine, if you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2002] Reference

Stratford knew his car well, and coaxed it along over the well-oiled roads of Westchester at a speed to make anybody gasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference

Our freighted Icarus was soaring on well-oiled wings: how soon might his waxy pinions droop under the fierce gaze of the sun!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

MANN: While there are angry demonstrators in the streets, at Mubarak campaign headquarters, a well-oiled machine is busy at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2005] Reference

"The Boston Globe" pitting the battle as an "incumbent's well-oiled political machine again versus an upstart's campaign for change.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference

If you stand on the ladder and press against the ceiling directly over it, a well-oiled trap door will open soundlessly and lead you into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference