to live or work with someone in a friendly way
All they need to do is learn to rub along together.
And now it is over and we must all learn to rub along together again, as we have for the past 307 years.
At its best, this enables people of different cultures to rub along.
Chancellor, has pronounced the idea of multiculturalism to be dead but has so far failed to suggest other models of how ethnic minorities should rub along.
Couples continue in a dead, frozen way, rubbing along for years.
Despite the quarrels between their old countries, people rubbed along well enough.
I wasn't happy about it but they were adults and we rubbed along.
I'd rather rub along and do a good job, get on with the common purpose.
In practice, flexibility is required if different national economies are to rub along together.
My marriage rubbed along like most people's do after 30 years.
RIO FERDINAND may not be the easiest person to rub along with.
Since then the three have rubbed along in various business ventures.
That has to change if we're all going to rub along properly together.
The two of them may rub along fine, especially as the proximity of the Ashes series will keep minds focused on the task at hand.
These are crazy, a tax on ambition that appeals to clubs happy to rub along or just pocket millions after relegation from the Prem.
They had to rub along and they did.
This is a place where human endeavour and natural landscape have rubbed along so well that both look better than anywhere else.
We fans have grown to accept all that behaviour, as our heroes try to rub along somehow on 150,000 a week.
We rub along pretty well most of the time.
We rub along pretty well, me and Ben.
We rubbed along pretty well.
We're two people who just rub along very nicely and happily together.
Working out how we all rub along together in 21st-century Britain is a vital task.
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