smooth the way (?.)

• aid
• anoint
• be promising
• beeswax
• bid fair to
• clear the way
• daub
• dress
• ease
• embrocate
• enable
• expedite
• explain
• facilitate
• glycerolate
• grease
• grease the ways
• grease the wheels
• hasten
• have favorable odds
• help along
• increase the chances
• lard
• loose
• lubricate
• make clear
• make fair promise
• make more likely
• make possible
• make probable
• make way for
• offer the expectation
• oil
• open the way
• open up
• pave the way
• permit
• pomade
• prepare the way
• probabilize
• promise
• quicken
• remove friction
• run interference for
• salve
• seem likely
• show a tendency
• simplify
• slick
• slick on
• smear
• smooth
• soap the ways
• speed
• stand fair to
• unbar
• unblock
• unclog
• unguent
• unjam
• wax