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Rub up   /rəb əp/   Listen
Rub up

noun
1.
A review that refreshes your memory.





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"Rub up" Quotes from Famous Books



... part is all O. K., Larry," he said; "but you're away off when you think we're going to rub up against a grizzly bear down in Florida. They have got a specimen of the breed here, but it's only a small black fellow, and not particularly ferocious, they tell me. But we'll ask Tony about all these things later on; he ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... and I am expecting the MS. Omar which I have written about to London. And now with respect to your proposed Fraser Paper on Omar. You see a few lines back I talk of some lazy Latin Versions of his Tetrastichs, giving one clumsy example. Now I shall rub up a few more of those I have sketched in the same manner, in order to see if you approve, if not of ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald
... So that the people will think him young under his mask; so that the women will still take him for a young dandy and whisper nasty things into his ears; so that he can rub up against all their dirty skins, with their perfumes and powders and cosmetics. Ah! it's a fine business! What a life I have had for the last forty years! But we must first get him to bed, so that he may have no ill effects. Would you ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... answer, but proceeded to divest himself of his rusty outside coat, and to rub up his stiff, grizzled, bristly, uncombed hair with both his hands, as was his wont when he was not quite satisfied with the ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... I've had no experience!" Susan said, instantly depressed. "I could rub up on French and German, and read up the treatment for toothache and ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris


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