To die, to sleep— / To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's therub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause
[…] the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was therub.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu,The House by the Churchyard:
'My dear Devereux, I say, you mustn't talk in that wild way. You—you talk like a ruined man!' 'And I so comfortable!' 'Why, to be sure, Dick, you have had some littlerubs, and, maybe, your follies and your vexations; but, hang it, you are young; you can't get experience—at least, so I've found it—without paying for it.[…]'
rub (third-person singular simple presentrubs,present participlerubbing,simple past and past participlerubbed)
(transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
Irubbed the cloth over the glass.
The catrubbed itself against my leg.
Irubbed my hands together for warmth.
1680,T. K.,The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health.[…][1], How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound,page44:
You ſhouldrub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth,rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.
(transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
meatrubbed with spices before barbecuing
1667,John Milton, “Book I”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
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Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page65
