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[rubber check]  {n.},  {informal}

A check written without enough money in the bank to make it good.

Bill got into trouble when he paid his bills with rubber checks.

* /By the time we knew he had paid us with a rubber check, the man had left the  […]

[rub down]  {v. phr.}

1. To dry the body of (an animal or person) by rubbing.

Stablemen rub down a horse after a race.

2. To rub and press with the fingers on the body of (a person) to loosen muscles or prevent stiffness; massage.

* /Trainers rub  […]

[rub elbows] also [rub shoulders]  {v. phr.}

To be in the same place (with others); meet and mix.

City people and country people, old and young, rub elbows at the horse show.

* /On a visit to the United Nations Building in New York, you may rub  […]

[rub it in]  {v. phr.},  {slang}

To remind a person again and again of an error or short-coming; tease; nag.

Jerry was already unhappy because he fumbled the ball, but his teammates kept rubbing it in.

* /I know my black eye looks funny. You don't  […]

[rub off]  {v.}

1. To remove or be removed by rubbing; erase.

The teacher rubs the problem off the chalkboard.

* /After Ann shook hands with the president, she would not shake hands with anyone else because she thought that the good luck would rub  […]

[rub out]  {v.},  {slang}

To destroy completely; kill; eliminate.

The gangsters rubbed out four policemen before they were caught.

The gangsters told the storekeeper that if he did not pay them to protect him, someone would rub him out.

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[rub salt into one's wounds]  {v. phr.},  {informal}

To deliberately add pain when one feels shame, regret, or defeat.

[rub shoulders]

See: [RUB ELBOWS].

[rub the wrong way]  {v. phr.},  {informal}

To make (someone) a little angry; do something not liked by (someone); annoy; bother.

John's bragging rubbed the other boys the wrong way.

* /Mother's friend called Harold a little boy, and that rubbed  […]

[rub up against]  {v. phr.}

To come into contact with.