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Definition of Rub along
1. Verb. Manage one's existence barely. "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
Generic synonyms: Contend, Cope, Deal, Get By, Grapple, Make Do, Make Out, Manage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rub Along
Literary usage of Rub along
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Including All the Words in Common Use by William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer (1919)
"... as. to manage to rub along: n. a moving of something over with pressure; niH
Her (rub'ert, "• anything used for luu-uci erasing, polishing, etc.; ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"To rub along somehow, to manage to live after some sort of a fashion. ' I do
shrub along middlin' well, when I bain't bad wi' the rheumatiz. ..."
3. Text Book on Wireless Telegraphy by Rupert Stanley (1914)
"... bar or rod of iron on the table and drawing a pole of a magnet along the bar
from end to end, taking care always to rub along the bar in one direction. ..."
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