rub off on

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rub off on(to) someone or something

[for something, such as a coating] to become transferred to someone or something through the contact of rubbing. Look what rubbed off on me! The wet paint rubbed off onto my pants leg.

See also: rub

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Byline: Nick Purewal STEVE McCormack wants Chris Hood's attitude to rub off on Gateshead Thunder's players this afternoon. New Thunder coach hands reins to Hood by The Journal (Newcastle, England) If her influence was ever going to rub off on me I'd have thought it would have been how to get grass stains out of T-shirts or how to revamp your laundry basket with sticky back plastic - not getting into fetish in your late forties. Madonna's Mummy Does Bondage pose by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) And Gatland's sentiments are starting to rub off on his squad as they prepare to travel to Murrayfield this weekend. We should enjoy being favourites, says prop Jenkins by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)			rouse rouse from rouse out of rouse to roust out of rout out of some place route route around route to rove row row out to royal rub rub against rub at rub away rub down rub elbows rub elbows with rub in rub into rub it in rub nose in it rub off rub off on rub out rub over rub salt in a wound rub salt in the wound rub salt into wounds rub shoulders with rub the wrong way rub together rub up rub up the wrong way rub with rubber rubber-stamp Rube Goldberg rude ruffle ruffle feathers ruffle its feathers ruffle up rug rug rat ruin ruin of rule rule against			rub in rub in rub in rub in rub in rub in rub in to cause rub into rub into rub into rub into rub into rub into Rub iron rub it rub it rub it rub it rub it Rub It In rub nose rub nose rub nose rub nose rub nose rub nose in it rub nose in the dirt Rub of the green rub off rub off rub off on rub out rub out rub out rub out rub out rub out rub over rub salt in a wound rub salt in the wound rub salt into the wound rub salt into the wound rub salt into the wound rub salt into the wound rub salt into wound rub salt into wound rub salt into wound rub salt into wounds rub shoulders rub shoulders rub shoulders rub shoulders rub shoulders rub shoulders with rub shoulders with someone rub sore rub the wrong way rub the wrong way rub the wrong way rub the wrong way rub the wrong way

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