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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

... 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