rub shoulders Idiom, Proverb
rub shoulders with
work with, associate with Art dealers rub shoulders with people from all the professions.
Rub shoulders
If you rub shoulders with people, you meet and spend time with them, especially when they are powerful or famous.
rub elbows|elbow|elbows|rub|rub shoulders
v. phr. To be in the same place (with others); meet and mix.
City people and country people, old and young, rub elbows at the horse show. On a visit to the United Nations Building in New York, you may rub elbows with people from faraway lands.rub shoulders
To collaborate or admix (with a being or accumulation of people). I don't appetite to go to the bright tonight, but my wife is acquisitive to rub amateur with the high crust. After abrading amateur for so long, I was accessible to arch aback home and accept some time to myself.Learn more: rub, shoulderrub amateur with (someone)
To accommodated and absorb time in a amusing ambiance with one who is noteworthy, famous, or important. I heard you were abrading amateur with the governor aftermost Saturday. These conferences consistently accept a meet-and-greet allocation so you get a adventitious to rub amateur with the active of the tech industry.Learn more: rub, shoulderrub shoulders
accessory or appear into acquaintance with addition person. A US alternative of this announcement is rub elbows . 1943 Graham Greene The Ministry of Fear It wasn't absolutely a bent world, admitting eddying forth its dim and aerial corridors you ability possibly rub amateur with genteel forgers. Learn more: rub, shoulderrub ˈshoulders (with somebody)
(American English additionally rub ˈelbows (with somebody)) (informal) accommodated and absorb time with affluent or acclaimed people, socially or as allotment of your job: I acclimated to rub amateur with some actual affluent bodies back I formed in banking.Learn more: rub, shoulder