"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." - Jane Austen 'Mansfield Park'
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." — Beatrix Potter
speak out/up phrasal verb
to give your opinion about something in public, especially on a subject which you have strong feelings about:
If no one has the courage to speak out against the system, things will never improve.
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amen
exclamation FORMAL
said or sung at the end of a prayer or sometimes a religious song to express agreement with what has been saidAmen（Heb.希伯來文 ）：(1)阿門；亞孟；贊成；但願如此：希伯來語，意即願禱中所求都能獲得，多用於祈禱之結尾。(2)鄭重的；實實在在的：在福音中耶穌警告人時的慣用語。
amen to that
said to show that you agree strongly with something that someone has just said:
"Thank goodness we didn't go." "Amen to that!"
the rubspeak out/up phrasal verb
to give your opinion about something in public, especially on a subject which you have strong feelings about:
If no one has the courage to speak out against the system, things will never improve.
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the particular problem that makes a situation difficult or impossible:
You can't get a job unless you have experience, but there's the rub, you can't get experience unless you have a job.
[COUNTABLE] the action of rubbing part of the body
a rub on the back
a foot rub
If a quality or characteristic that someone has rubs off, other people begin to have it because they have been with that person and learnt it from them:
His enthusiasm is starting to rub off on the rest of us.
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