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/rəb əlˈɔŋ/ Listen

verb

Rub v. i.

To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.

To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.

To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.

To rub along or To rub on, to go on with difficulty; as, they manage, with strict economy, to rub along. (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rub along" Quotes from Famous Books

... if I was made of money. What with taxes always going up and rents always going down, it's as much as we can do to rub along as we are, without making allowances to everybody who thinks she wants to get married. (to BRIAN) And that's ...

— Second Plays • A. A. Milne

... break out into anything; they didn't agree with society (had impossible foreheads that ran nearly back to their necks, and thin hair); they went to college just to get the name of it and to kill time, but when they got through they didn't rub along well at home; called taking an interest in the house beneath them and the pair that liked society frivolous; so they took a flat (I mean apartment—a flat is when it's less than a hundred a month and only has one bathroom), and set ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

... as Austin went pegging along towards the house. "Game for no end of mischief when the fit takes him, for all he's only got one leg. One'd think he was half daft to hear him talk sometimes, too. Seems like as if it galled him a bit to rub along with the old auntie, and I shouldn't wonder if the old auntie herself felt about as snug as a bell-wether tied to a frisky colt. However, I s'pose the A'mighty knows what He's about, and it's always the old cow's notion as she never ...

— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour

... Gorringe. "If you let things like that worry you, you'll keep a sore skin all your life. You take my advice and just go ahead your own gait, and let other folks do the worrying. They ARE pretty close-fisted here, for a fact, but you can manage to rub along somehow. If you should get into any real difficulties, why, I guess—" the lawyer paused to smile in a hesitating, significant way—"I guess some road out can be found all right. The main thing is, don't fret, and don't allow your wife ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... rooms in Fig Tree Court. I shall soon be ready to move my things in. I'll leave some of poor Vivie Warren's effects behind if you don't mind, in case she comes back some day. Do you think you can rub along if I take my departure next week? I want to give myself a fortnight's bicycle holiday in Wales—as D.V. Williams—a kind of honeymoon with Fate, before I settle down as a law student. After I come back I can devote much of the summer recess to ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston