(1) You know, in today's business, everything is so cookie cutter and so formulaic, for a rube like Billy to hit like he has is a great thing.(2) quintessentially rube names(3) The New York of her books is the one of legend: where a small-town rube goes to cast his or her lot against the forces of good fortune and hard luck, and there's no telling which you'll end up with.(4) Everyone suffers agonies of mortification that he'll seem a trailer-trash rube if he says out loud the plain truth that the modernist emperor has no clothes.(5) First they said that only ignorant rubes doubted Darwin.(6) The argument is that big institutions can't get bamboozled by hype the way the rest of us rubes can.(7) North Dakota might be a rural state, but the people aren't rubes .(8) It's all about retailing efficiency, they tell us, as though we are gullible rubes who don't know that computers mean fewer retail clerks, more technological glitches, and much consumer frustration.(9) You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury.(10) He initially doesn't have violence inside himself so much as ill will for the rubes he fleeces.(11) Even if they felt like rubes , they'd pretend otherwise, behind a screen of smart remarks.(12) We have to enjoy every chance we can get to ridicule rubes from the South / Southwest.(13) Or maybe I like hearing about a good con that separates the rubes from their money.(14) We just knew you prudish rubes would be upset and it would sell papers (which is, after all, the point of this business)!(15) It's just not as simple as it used to be to round up the rubes and tell them what they believe.(16) I get to talk to a couple of rubes like you.
