rub shoulders with
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He played alongside other greats of that area including Bobby Jones and his golfing status saw him rub shoulders with Hollywood icons including Charlie Chaplin.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025
She was brashly optimistic in what she calls “the good old days,” thrilled to rub shoulders with Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and Liza Minnelli at Halston’s fabled glass-and-steel Upper East Side townhouse.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024
But there are real choices for voters to make in this city of contrasts, where shiny new towers loom above rain-soaked tents and corporate titans rub shoulders with independent shops.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023
And now, the journey has taken Haber to New York ahead of Thursday’s draft, where he hopes to rub shoulders with actual NBA prospects Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2023
The poor mountaineers in the neighbourhood of the Recess Valley and away over the hills seldom go far enough from home to rub shoulders with civilisation.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
