rub off
Britishverb
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to remove or be removed by rubbing
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(intr; often foll by on or onto) to have an effect through close association or contact, esp so as to make similar
her crude manners have rubbed off on you
noun
Example Sentences
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Rub off small sprouts while you’re scrubbing the potatoes under clean, cool running water — please, no soap! — but any bigger sprouts and their “eyes” should be cut out.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2022
Rub off the skins so that only the green part is put in the salad-bowl.
From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by Payne, A. G.
Rub off from grape vines the shoots that are not wanted.
From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
"Rub off some of your gloomy pessimism and cultivate a little more healthy girlish vanity, and you will do very well," she would say.
From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles
Rub off skins, cut in quarters, strew over them one tablespoon of butter cut in small pieces, stand in oven just long enough for the butter to melt.
From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith
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