rub elbows with someone

rub elbows with (someone)

To interact or mingle with a person or group. I don't want to go to the gala tonight, but my wife is eager to rub elbows with the upper class.

rub elbows with someone

AMERICAN

If you rub elbows with someone important or famous, you spend time with them. He rubbed elbows with his movie star clients and appeared on numerous TV talk shows. In the 10 years prior to that job, he rubbed elbows with dozens of political super-celebrities. Note: The usual British expression is rub shoulders with someone.

词组	rub elbows with someone
释义	rub elbows with someone rub elbows with (someone) To interact or mingle with a person or group. I don't want to go to the gala tonight, but my wife is eager to rub elbows with the upper class. See also: elbow, rub Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. rub elbows with someone AMERICAN If you rub elbows with someone important or famous, you spend time with them. He rubbed elbows with his movie star clients and appeared on numerous TV talk shows. In the 10 years prior to that job, he rubbed elbows with dozens of political super-celebrities. Note: The usual British expression is rub shoulders with someone. See also: elbow, rub, someone Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: rub rub elbows rub elbows with rub elbows with (someone) rub shoulders rub shoulders with (someone) rub up rub elbows with, to rub nose in it rub someone's nose in something References in periodicals archive WOULD YOU WANT TO RUB ELBOWS WITH SOMEONE AS INSENSITIVE AS SIR COLIN? A knight at the opera
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