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"etymology_text": "Likely from a longer phrase, \"I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you\".",
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"ref": "1948, Daniel Curley, “A Deal in Cards”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 181, Atlantic Monthly Co., page 61",
"text": "“You’re nothing but a — a cheat,” Florence said.\n“I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything you say sticks right back to you,” John said calmly, complete master with all the answers.",
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"ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2024 January 10, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, “One of Trump’s Oldest Tactics in Business and Politics: I’m Rubber. You’re Glue.”, in The New York Times",
"text": "And in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump applied the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” approach to a wide range of vulnerabilities.",
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"Countering an attack on one's character."
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"(childish) Countering an attack on one's character."
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"word": "I know you are but what am I"
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"word": "I am rubber, you are glue"
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"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "not used in Mandarin",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue"
},
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "det man siger er man selv"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "wat je zegt ben je zelf"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "se, joka haukkuu, on itse"
},
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"code": "de",
"english": "das",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "was du sagst, bist du selbst, wenn du deine Klappe hältst"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "aki mondja másra, az mondja magára"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "cine zice, ăla este"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kto pérvyj obzyvájetsja, tot tak i nazyvájetsja",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "кто пе́рвый обзыва́ется, тот так и называ́ется"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "rebota, rebota y en tu culo explota"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "den som sa det, var det"
}
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}
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"word": "I'm rubber, you're glue"
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"ref": "1948, Daniel Curley, “A Deal in Cards”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 181, Atlantic Monthly Co., page 61",
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"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2024 January 10, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, “One of Trump’s Oldest Tactics in Business and Politics: I’m Rubber. You’re Glue.”, in The New York Times",
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"(childish) Countering an attack on one's character."
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"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue"
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"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "det man siger er man selv"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "wat je zegt ben je zelf"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "se, joka haukkuu, on itse"
},
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"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "was du sagst, bist du selbst, wenn du deine Klappe hältst"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "aki mondja másra, az mondja magára"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "cine zice, ăla este"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kto pérvyj obzyvájetsja, tot tak i nazyvájetsja",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "кто пе́рвый обзыва́ется, тот так и называ́ется"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "rebota, rebota y en tu culo explota"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "I'm rubber, you're glue",
"word": "den som sa det, var det"
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"word": "I'm rubber, you're glue"
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