Money. Huile is French slang for “money,” as will appear from the following quotation:—“Il faudra que vostre bourse fasse les frais de vostre curiosité; il faut de la pecune, il faut de lʹhuile.” (La Fausse Coquette, ii. 7; 1694.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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