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rub along

verb

  1. to continue in spite of difficulties

  2. to maintain an amicable relationship; not quarrel

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Where all the different elements of cricket should be able to rub along together for the betterment of each other, we have somehow landed in a civil war, almost exclusively fuelled by the game's administrators.

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But they have a high respect for each other's ability and they rub along well enough on a superficial level when they end up in the same vicinity, it seems.

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A pencil was rubbed along the ball of the patient’s foot.

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“It’s like a cowlick,” she says, her hand rubbing along it.

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Then I noticed that it only happened when the cuff of my flannel pajamas rubbed along the cotton sheets.

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