Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

i'm rubber, you're glue

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: i'm rub-ber, y-ou're glue
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Countering an attack on one's character.

Example Sentences

"“You’re nothing but a — a cheat,” Florence said. “I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything you say sticks right back to you,” John said calmly, complete master with all the answers."
"Few anticommunist accusations are more trite than that Marxism is a religion, the Manifesto a religious tract and Marx himself[…] a ‘religious eschatologist’. At a banal level, to many of the accusers can be said in retort: I am rubber, you are glue."
"And in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump applied the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” approach to a wide range of vulnerabilities."

Etymology

An anapodoton from a longer phrase, "I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you".

Inflected Forms

I am rubber, you are glue (alternative) I'm rubber and you're glue (alternative)

Phrases

I know you are but what am I throw things at the wall and see what sticks throw dirt enough, and some will stick throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

Frequently Paired Words

I know you are but what am I throw things at the wall and see what sticks throw dirt enough, and some will stick throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

Questions

What does i'm rubber, you're glue mean?: Countering an attack on one's character.
Where does i'm rubber, you're glue come from?: An anapodoton from a longer phrase, "I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you".

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