rub along
Britishverb
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to continue in spite of difficulties
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to maintain an amicable relationship; not quarrel
Example Sentences
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"You can even see the grease on the walls where the rats tend to rub along with all the rubbish."
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
There was a drumbeat throughout the entire argument that these two justifications don’t necessarily rub along together with equal force.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2025
A democracy composed of citizens who disagree profoundly on those existential questions can rub along just fine.
From Slate • Jul. 25, 2019
It was 25 times more than Bob Dudley received for running BP and 55 times more than the £4.9m that Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, has to rub along on.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018
‘Perhaps you might agree to come for the summer, just at first,’ he had written, ‘to see how you and your boy settle, and how we all of us rub along.’
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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