Idiom of the Day
grease (someone's) palm
to pay money to someone for some special favor
We had to grease the border guard`s palm in order to enter the country.
Fact
The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union's Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system.
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