It means you need to keep it going like a well oiled machine. Keep up repairs, clean regularly, get dinner and other meals prepared and take care of your family the best you can
<span>figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language uses words exactly according to their conventionally accepted meanings or denotation.</span>
He means mischief is the thoughts f a desperate man he thinks bad things because he is a impatient person