2014年11月9日 星期日

rub someone (or British rub someone up) the wrong way


China is a country that finds it strangely hard to get along with its East Asian neighbours, rubbing many of them up the wrong way with assertive territorial claims and other high-handedness. Yet political tensions obscure the region's intense economic links, particularly the fact that an astonishing number of Chinese are employed on the mainland by East Asian firms http://econ.st/1skotvv


rub someone (or British rub someone up) the wrong way

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Irritate or repel someone (as by stroking a cat against the lie of its fur):he had a cold manner that rubbed people the wrong way

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