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单词 rub and go
释义

rub and gon.

Brit. /ˌrʌb (ə)n(d) ˈɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˌrəb ən ˈɡoʊ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rub v.1, and conj.1, go v.
Etymology: < rub v.1 + and conj.1 + go v., apparently as an alteration of touch and go n.
Now rare.
= touch and go n. 1b. Frequently to be rub and go.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > narrow
rub and go1790
touch and go1816
squeak1822
near go1826
close shave1834
a near (also close) toucher1844
squeeze1848
near-run thing1860
close call1881
1790 Connecticut Gaz. 4 June 3/3 Arrived at New-York, the State of Rhode-Island, and there safe moored in the Union, two fathom only!—A Narrow By, Faith, Jack!—(English language, just rub and go.).
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 467 With present prices..it is rub-and-go with nineteen twentieths of the farmers.
1848 J. F. Cooper Jack Tier II. viii. 200 It has been rub and go with me ever since; and I have had as much as I could do to keep the brig in motion.
1905 Rep. Royal Comm. Supply of Food & Raw Material I, in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2643) XXXI. 349/1 Below them there would be men in this trade for whom it would be ‘rub and go’ every week?—Yes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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