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单词 to rub shoulders
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to rub shoulders
P4. to rub shoulders: to come into contact, to associate (with others).
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > rub shoulders with
shoulder1690
to rub shouldersa1732
to rub elbows1750
a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1792) II. 129 They are all members of Christ, of the blood royal of heaven, even those of them that some would disdain to rub shoulders with.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 39/2 Against how many hundreds a-day does not such a thing rub shoulders.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxv She had rubbed shoulders with the great.
1928 Observer 15 July 11/3 You may see preacher and ploughman, collier and clerk, all rubbing shoulders and all under the influence of the intangible and untranslatable ‘hwyl’ of the Eisteddfod.
1976 E. Maclaren Nature of Belief iii. 20 I'm rubbing shoulders with questions of religious philosophy all the time.
1991 J. Caldwell Oxf. Hist. Eng. Music I. x. 569 As in the earlier decades of the century, sacred songs rub shoulders in the manuscript and printed collections of the day.
2005 Olive Mar. 126/1 Begin your day at one of the caffè bars along Corso Magenta, where you'll rub shoulders with the impeccably dressed bankers.
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