| 单词 | the rub |
| 释义 | the rubSEE SYNONYMS FOR the rub ON THESAURUS.COM The difficulty or problem, as in We'd love to come but there's the rub—we can't get reservations. This expression may come from lawn bowling, where rub refers to an unevenness in the ground that impedes the ball. Its most famous use is in one of Hamlet's soliloquies (Hamlet, 3:1): “To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come ... Must give us pause.” [Late 1500s] Words nearby the rubtherophyte, theropod, Theroux, Thersites, thersitical, the rub, “The Rubáiyát”, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The, salt of the earth, the, the Salvation Army, same old story, the The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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