grease monkey | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,slang)Amechanic, often with the specificconnotationof anautomobilemechanic.1910, Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges,Jeanne d'Arc et l'Union française - discours prononcé à Notre-Dame le 8 Mai 1910 en la première fête liturgique de la Bienheureuse Jeanne d'Arc, page10:If you appear like a tramp orgrease-monkeyhow can you expect to meet the people who are able to support your business.1918, Motor World Publishing Company (publisher),Motor World for Jobbers, Dealers and Garagemen - Volume 55, page29:Maybe some other "grease monkey," as I call mechanics, will correct me.1920, International Union of Elevator Constructors (publisher),The Elevator Constructor - Volume 17, page30:Brother W.M. Hillery resigned from his job asgrease monkeyand is working for Armour and Company, but as we understand he is just itching to get with the old bunch.

Examples:

EN: He was just a grease monkey in a junkyard garage.
ES: Sólo era un mecánico en un taller de segunda.
EN: You'll never be anything but a $15 a week grease monkey.
ES: "Sólo eres un mecánico grasiento. "
EN: He was Grant's first grease monkey.
ES: Él fue el primer mecánico de Grant.
EN: It might be more wonderful if he were coming home to a charming, feminine young lady instead of a grease monkey.
ES: ¡Es la era de las máquinas! Te agradecería que limitaras tu genio a una máquina de coser.
EN: You know I do, you grease monkey.
ES: Ya sabe que sí, mecánico.
EN: An ex-grease monkey who got lucky.
ES: Un antiguo mecánico que tuvo suerte.
EN: But being just a... grease monkey, being what I am, where I come from, staying the way I am...
ES: Pero siendo solo un grasiento peón, ...siendo lo que soy, de donde procedo, ...siendo como soy...
EN: I take myself down to the garage... and tell that grease monkey I'm going out... and I point to the car I want and he hands me the keys.
ES: Voy directamente al garaje... le digo al mono lleno de grasa que voy a salir... le señalo el auto que quiero y él me entrega las llaves.
EN: Any grease monkey could learn that.
ES: Cualquiera que sepa de mecánica hace eso.
EN: Hey, how come l've to be the grease monkey?
ES: ¿ Y yo por qué tengo que estar engrasando el auto?
EN: AII I can say is, if a driver like Turk FoIey... could wind up being a grease monkey to a girl driver... then the whole sport of racing is going to hell in a bucket.
ES: Sólo digo que si un conductor como Turk Foley... termina siendo mecánico para una chica que conduce... el deporte de las carreras se está yendo al diablo.
EN: You stupid grease monkey.
ES: Eso fue Estupido Cabrón!
EN: Old Brad here went to prison, Julie started dickin' with some grease monkey from Willerton.
ES: Brad fue a la cárcel y Julie se tiraba a un mecánico de Willerton.
EN: Nice legs for a grease monkey, soldier. Falcon!
ES: -Bonitas piernas para un mono engrasado, soldado.
EN: I'll make a grease monkey out of you yet.
ES: Va a estar más sucia que estopa de mecánico.

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