rub off, in the wrong, rub someone (or British rub someone up) the wrong way

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The absent are always in the wrong.

---- French playwright Philippe Néricault Destouches

rub off phrasal verb INFORMAL
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.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)





 rub off

be transferred by contact or association.

"when parents are having a hard time, their tension can easily rub off on the kids"

　
こすり落とす［される］; 影響を及ぼす, 一部になる ((on, onto)).

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

in the wrong

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Responsible for a quarrel, mistake, or offence:who was in the wrong?