Etymology

I'm rubber, you're glue

Today it means: Countering an attack on one's character. Full definition →

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The story

An anapodoton from a longer phrase, "I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.