Note to Hamlet, 3.1.65: "ay, there's the rub"


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The term "rub" comes from the game Americans know as lawn bowling, in which "A rub is some fault in the surface of the green that stops a bowl or diverts it from its intended direction" (World Wide Words: Michael Quinton writes on International English from a British Viewpoint).