rub elbows
rub elbows also 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.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
