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rub together

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rub something together
to press two things together and move them back and forth. Sam rubbed his fingers together, indicating that he needed some money before he could continue. Mary rubbed her hands together to get them warmed up.
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Melissa's snobby parents aren't big fans of Will, who doesn't have two pennies to rub together and the pair are separated.
While subjects on this series are frequently moved to tears at realising how their dirt-poor ancestors didn't have two pennies to rub together, Kevin can only sit, looking faintly embarrassed as more and more of his hugely successful and well-connected capitalist forebears come strutting out of the woodwork - one even rated a mention in the famous diary of Samuel Pepys.
Both of these characteristics increase the force of friction between your fingertips and various objects as they rub together.
 
 
 
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