[post_page_title]”Rub the wrong way”[/post_page_title]
To “rub the wrong way,” to bother or annoy someone, has a peculiar origin. During the Colonial era, early Americans would instruct their slaves to rub the oak floorboards of their homes the right way.
The wrong way was to skip wiping them with dry fabric after using the wet fabric, which would cause streaks to form on the floorboards and ruin the wood, much to the annoyance of the homeowner. Another suggested origin is that rubbing a cat’s fur the wrong way irritates them.
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