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rub

elbows/shoulders

To mix or socialize closely: diplomats rubbing elbows with heads of state.

See:

• don't know whether to eat it or rub it on
• have two pennies to rub together
• not have two nickels to rub together
• rub
• rub against
• rub at
• rub away
• rub down
• rub elbows
• rub elbows with
• rub hands
• rub in
• rub into
• rub it in
• rub nose in
• rub nose in it
• rub off
• rub off on
• rub one's hands
• rub out
• rub over
• rub salt in a wound
• rub salt in the wound
• rub salt into wounds
• rub shoulders with
• rub someone out
• rub someone’s nose in something
• rub someone's nose in it
• rub the wrong way
• rub together
• rub up
• rub up on
• rub up the wrong way
• rub with
• the rub
• the rub of the green
• There's the rub