rubbing

Ama begins pacing through the room, rubbing her chin as she thinks.

“Millions! Enough to keep us here past suppertime,” Beowulf said, rubbing his tummy forlornly.

“Mice are good, though,” Cassiopeia conceded, rubbing her tummy.

“Sometimes when you’re creating something, it feels like you’re rubbing against something or you’re pushing something uphill. But with this project, it didn’t feel like that. It was flowing naturally,” said Twigs.

"It is simply rubbing salt into the wounds of ordinary workers who, yet again, can see that when it come to pay it's one rule for the bosses and another rule for everyone else."