Abrade Phrases

Phrases

• Axe to grind
• Bow and scrape
• Bump and grind
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Get into a scrape
• Grind to a halt
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
• Rub a dub dub men in a tub
• Rub along with
• Rub it in
• Rub of the green
• Rub out
• Rub salt in the wound
• Rub shoulders with
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rub up the wrong way
• Rub your nose in it
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Scrape a living
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Worse for wear
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)