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Idioms and Phrases

Become transferred to another, influence through close contact, as in We hoped some of their good manners would rub off on our children . This idiom alludes to transferring something like paint to another substance by rubbing against it. [Mid-1900s]
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Example Sentences

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He has had five yellow cards and a red already this season and he has got to be careful, because that kind of indiscipline can rub off on your players.

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Which might rub off on Davis’ sport.

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“So to see how Nneka is getting to her spots and able to use her physicality to finish around the rim, not just in transition but in a half-court setting, I think that will rub off on Ezi, too.”

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Despite the devastating physical and emotional impact of his accident, it seems that some of the optimism and hope that his protagonist Karim feels, is starting to rub off on him.

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“I feel like as a woman in this industry, people will try you, they will try to walk all over you and make you seem less than or that you’re not capable of doing certain things, and that’s just other people’s insecurities. And when their insecurities rub off on you, then you kind of start looking at yourself different.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from 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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