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missdaredevil
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I don't want you to *rob your teacher the wrong way*.
What does that mean?
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CP
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The expression is "rub someone the wrong way."
If you rob the teacher, you take his or her belongings by force, and that would be the wrong way. 
But to rub the wrong way means to irritate, to chafe, to do something that the other person doesn't like.
By the way, we DON'T have the opposite expression--to rub someone the right way. So try to remember that!
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missdaredevil
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:47 am Post subject: |
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That was quick!
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