if a quality that someone has rubs off, it starts to affect another person so that they start to have that quality too
Hopefully her enthusiasm will rub off on the rest of the team.
Of course, a vet's wife must expect some of the odium to rub off on her where animals are concerned.
Some of it must rub off, she thought, kissing Sheilah warmly, enjoying her perfume.
Some of it should rub off on your mother," he said with surprising bitterness.
rubs off
rubbing off
rubbed off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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