rub shoulders
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editrub shoulders (third-person singular simple present rubs shoulders, present participle rubbing shoulders, simple past and past participle rubbed shoulders)
- (idiomatic, usually followed by with) To associate closely; to socialize or mingle.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Memories and Portraits:
- All classes rub shoulders on the greasy benches.
- 1894, Henry James, chapter 6, in The Death of the Lion:
- In this establishment, as everybody knows, on occasions when the crush is great, the animals rub shoulders freely with the spectators.
- 1915, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 24, in The Lost Prince:
- [N]ow and then the two dress themselves roughly, like common men, and go out into the city to see what it's like to rub shoulders with the rest of the world.
- 2010 March 10, Lori Ioannou, “Use Social Media to Build Your Brand”, in Time:
- It pays to network and rub shoulders virtually with potential customers on the Web.
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