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the rub
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synonyms: where the shoe pinches ???
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Definition:2. That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, 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.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1600)
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But here was the rub: Too often, in order to justify them, I had to take myself by the throat and choke myself until my eyes bulged and my tongue hung out and wagged like the door of an empty house in a high wind.Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man - intro (1981)
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