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[LordUnum]

rub = catch

 

[SZLiao214]

Never heard it till this thread. Sorry i cant help you. Maybe someone found the right spot?

 

[Minjin]

There's the rub = there's the issue/problem

edit: I agree with Lord, it can also mean catch

 

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[Special K]

It's from Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be..." soliloquy, and means "the catch", as others have said.

 

[flot]

It means "yup, that's the thing that makes this situation suck."

 

[everman]

It means you burnt the waffles again.

 

[Moonbeam]

a rub causes friction and heat, no?
A contact that transfers from one to another something or other.

 

[Moonbeam]

So is it nobler of the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against them and by opposing end them? I can't think of a bigger question or one with more meaning or implications.

 

[jonessoda]

Shakespeare was a brilliant writer, and I would consider him pertinent even to modern standards in some topics.

 

[djheater]

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause...


He's contemplating suicide and then thinks maybe that after death he may continue to be troubled. Not even death can give him peace. Death is appealing and he desires it, but WHAT IF he continues to be tormented after death? There's the rub.

 

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[chuckywang]

It's what you say to yourself while touching yourself at night.