I'm rubber, you're glue

I'm rubber, you're glue

English

Alternative forms

• I am rubber, you are glue
• I'm rubber and you're glue

Phrase

I'm rubber, you're glue

1. (childish) Countering an attack on one's character.
   • 1948, Daniel Curley, A Deal in Cards, The Atlantic Magazine, volume 181, Atlantic Monthly Co., page 61

     “You’re nothing but a — a cheat,” Florence said.

     “I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything you say sticks right back to you,” John said calmly, complete master with all the answers.

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, OCLC 1331706453:

     Few anticommunist accusations are more trite than that Marxism is a religion, the Manifesto a religious tract and Marx himself […] a ‘religious eschatologist’. At a banal level, to many of the accusers can be said in retort: I am rubber, you are glue.

Translations

I'm rubber, you're glue

Chinese: Mandarin: not used in Mandarin Danish: det man siger er man selv Dutch: wat je zegt ben je zelf Finnish: se, joka haukkuu, on itse German: was du sagst, (das) bist du selbst, wenn du deine Klappe hältst Hungarian: aki mondja másra, az mondja magára Romanian: cine zice, ăla este Russian: кто пе́рвый обзыва́ется, тот так и называ́ется (kto pérvyj obzyvájetsja, tot tak i nazyvájetsja) Swedish: den som sa det, var det Spanish: Rebota, rebota y en tu culo explota

See also

• I know you are but what am I