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


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