I'm rubber, you're glue

Phrase

I'm rubber, you're glue

1. (childish) Countering an attack on one's character.
   • “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.1948, Daniel Curley, “A Deal in Cards”, in The Atlantic Magazine, volume 181, Atlantic Monthly Co., page 61
   • 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.2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC