Learn 'Rub Elbows,' Other 'Rub' Expressions - November 20, 2024

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1. 0:08And now, words and their stories from VOA Learning English.
2. 0:19Today, we are talking about the term rub.
3. 0:24While this three-letter word is small, it should not be seen as unimportant.
4. 0:31In fact, rub carries a lot of meaning and can be used in many different situations.
5. 0:39For starters,
6. 0:41rub is a noun.
7. 0:45One way it is used this way is in cooking.
8. 0:50A rub is a collection of dry seasonings that can be added to meat, tofu,
9. 0:57or vegetables before cooking.
10. 1:02Rub can also mean something problematic.
11. 1:04If I ask, What's the rub?, I am asking, What's the problem?
12. 1:12This expression is very informal.
13. 1:18Rub is also a verb.
14. 1:21For example, I might rub my head if I have a headache.
15. 1:26Or I may rub my shoulder if it hurts.
16. 1:29And if something really hurts,
17. 1:33I might rub in some medicine to help reduce the pain.
18. 1:39But to rub something in also has another meaning – an idiomatic one.
19. 1:48If you rub something in, you keep reminding someone of something unpleasant.
20. 1:54This is a very common expression, so let's hear it used in a conversation.
21. 2:03Hey, I had fun playing basketball yesterday.
22. 2:06Your team almost won.
23. 2:09Almost. It was fun.
24. 2:11I got a great workout.
25. 2:13What was the score again?
26. 2:16Okay, okay. Stop rubbing it in.
27. 2:19Your team beat mine by a lot.
28. 2:24Rubbing something in is similar to rubbing someone's nose in something.
29. 2:31In the example we just heard, one man rubs his friend's nose in a loss at a basketball game.
30. 2:41When we rub someone's nose in something, we remind them that they have failed or got something wrong.
31. 2:50As a verb, rub is used in many other expressions.
32. 2:57If you rub someone the wrong way, you cause that person to be angry or annoyed.
33. 3:04It means you have irritated them,
34. 3:08usually for something in your personality or behavior.
35. 3:12fear. You do not have to do anything specific to rub someone the wrong way.
36. 3:20For example, the president of the company rubbed some of his employees the wrong way,
37. 3:27with his direct way of speaking.
38. 3:32Another expression is to rub elbows with someone.
39. 3:37We use this expression to describe being at the same event as someone, or simply being around them.
40. 3:47But we don't generally use it for interactions with our close friends.
41. 3:54Often, the people we rub elbows with are famous, important, or influential.
42. 4:02For example, I rubbed elbows with some famous people at the mayor's birthday celebration.
43. 4:11Another way to use the verb rub is in the expression to rub salt in the wound.
44. 4:20This means you make a bad situation worse for someone else.
45. 4:26Let's say you know someone who loses their job.
46. 4:30rub. When they tell you that news, you remind them that they still owe you money.
47. 4:38You have just rubbed salt in the wound.
48. 4:41Ouch. This is similar to kicking someone when they are down.
49. 4:48Another use of the word rub is in the phrasal verbal verb rub together.
50. 4:55We use this with other words to say that we lack something.
51. 5:01For example, if I don't have two brain cells to rub together, I can't think straight.
52. 5:08I'm confused. Or if you don't have two dimes to rub together, you have no money.
53. 5:16You are broke.
54. 5:18You could also say pennies or quarters as long as they are coins.
55. 5:26Our last expression is to rub something out.
56. 5:30That means you get rid of it.
57. 5:33And sometimes we use it in a rather violent situation.
58. 5:39If a bad person rubs someone out, they do away with them.
59. 5:44In other words, they actually kill them.
60. 5:49And that's all the time we have for this words and their stories.
61. 5:53Until next time, I'm Anna Matteo.