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"Dutch rub" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, generally referring to the practice of vigorously rubbing somebody's neck and shoulders
For example, "My husband is always giving me Dutch rubs to relieve my stress."
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Dutch rub
noun
An act of roughly rubbing one's knuckles across the top of another person's head with the intent of causing pain, often while pinning the other person's head with one's free arm.
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And now, having finished that salute, this column will return to its regular programming, which is delivering the written equivalent of a Dutch rub to any consumer-abusing chuckleheads that need one.
Then he gave his captive "a friendly Dutch rub" and let him go, saying: "Get it done, Needham".
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The aesthetics are magnetic: Dutch paint, rubbed wood, old mirrors, brick, warm light out of the past.
Wahrman explains this curious mixture of political allegiances by showing that Collier's native Breda was a place in which Scottish exiles and supporters of the Dutch ruling house rubbed shoulders.
And without wanting to look like we're rubbing it in, the Dutch losing a cracker against Czech Republic in 2004.
In The Embarrassment of Riches Simon Schama writes of the spic-and-span Dutch towns and interiors that "shone from hours of tireless sweeping, scrubbing, scraping, burnishing, mopping, rubbing and washing".
He's rubbed shoulders with some of the most prominent anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists out there, including Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders and writer David Horowitz.
Aiee! Aiee! Aiee! Rub rub rub rub rub.
Dutch colonials.
The rub?
Neck rub?
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