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Julia Huong
2022-01-07 04:01
Rub elbows with (someone) American US informal verb phrase
To engage or mix with someone or a group of people.
I don't care to rub elbows with someone who acts like that!
In the evening, you could put on your finery and rub elbows with these celebrated ones in the concert hall.
Jimmy rubbed elbows with these guys to do dirty things.
1. To sprinkle or cover something with a lot of something
2. To add or mix a lot of something in something such as a speech,video, story etc
3. To continuously attack someone or something with something such as stones, bullets, etc
The verb "rub" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1800s as "rub shoulders with", and it is still the more prevalent locution there.
Do you see anything wrong?
The similarity between the children and their parents
I looked at my father's eyes, then looked at my eyes. I thought the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
