rub off
informal— phrasal verb with rub uk/rʌb/us/rʌb/verb [ I or T ] -bb-
If a quality or characteristic that someone has rubs off, other people begin to have it because they have been with that person and learned it from them:
His enthusiasm is starting to rub off on the rest of us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- audit
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hear tell (of) idiom
- know better (than sb) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- mug (sth) up
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- tell
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