I'm rubber, you're glue

English Alternative forms I am rubber, you are glue I'm rubber and you're glue Etymology An anapodoton from a longer phrase, "I'm rubber, you're glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you". Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-I'm rubber, you're glue.wav US Phrase phr en childish Countering an attack on one's character. en 1948 Daniel Curley A Deal in Cards The Atlantic Magazine 181 Atlantic Monthly Co. 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. en w:China Miéville A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto 2022 1331706453 6 Few anticommunist accusations are more trite than that Marxism is a religion, the Manifesto a religious tract and Marx himself, in the words of one right-wing libertarian critic, Murray Rothbard, a ‘religious eschatologist’. At a banal level, to many of the accusers can be said in retort: I am rubber, you are glue. en One of Trump’s Oldest Tactics in Business and Politics: I’m Rubber. You’re Glue. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/trump-court-campaign-tactic.html 2024-01-10 Jonathan Swan; Maggie Haberman And in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump applied the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” approach to a wide range of vulnerabilities. https://web.archive.org/web/20251025002431/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/trump-court-campaign-tactic.html 25 October 2025 Translations I'm rubber, you're glue Chinese: Mandarin: cmn Danish: da det man siger er man selv Dutch: nl wat je zegt ben je zelf Finnish: fi se, joka haukkuu, on itse German: de was du sagst, (das) bist du selbst, wenn du deine Klappe hältst Hebrew: he הַכֹּל חוֹזֵר אֵלֶיךָ וְקָקָה בְּיָדֶיךָ hakól khozér elékha v'káka b'yadékha Hungarian: hu aki mondja másra, az mondja magára Italian: it Specchio riflesso se ti muovi sei un cesso Polish: pl kto przezywa, sam się tak nazywa Romanian: ro cine zice, ăla este Russian: ru кто пе́рвый обзыва́ется, тот так и называ́ется Spanish: es rebota, rebota y en tu culo explota Swedish: sv den som sa det, var det See also en 0 I know you are but what am I throw things at the wall and see what sticks throw dirt enough, and some will stick throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick en sentences