rub off
verb
rubbed off; rubbing off; rubs off
: to become transferred
bad habits rubbed off on them
carbon rubs off on your hands
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Over the six-month shoot, some American culture rubbed off on Wood.
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Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
But Stratus’s popularity in Canada in particular is rubbing off on Stratton, and their Elimination Chamber win was badly needed.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
What with that and the results-defying fist pumping, all that campaigning last fall seems to have really rubbed off.
—Liam Denning, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Yet some of Hayes’s philosophies rubbed off on Vrabel — thanks to a meeting with Anne Hayes, widow of Woody Hayes (Anne Hayes died in 1998).
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
But Stratus’s popularity in Canada in particular is rubbing off on Stratton, and their Elimination Chamber win was badly needed.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
What with that and the results-defying fist pumping, all that campaigning last fall seems to have really rubbed off.
—Liam Denning, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Yet some of Hayes’s philosophies rubbed off on Vrabel — thanks to a meeting with Anne Hayes, widow of Woody Hayes (Anne Hayes died in 1998).
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Rub off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rub%20off. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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