to polish, to brush / to improve, to refine (a skill)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

footwear, footgear: a shoe, (a pair of) shoes

to rub / to scrub, to scour / to scrape, to scratch

rub / grate / scrape / friction / chafe / brush / scour / scrub

rub, scrub / strike a match / lose at gambling

to graze, to touch lightly / to take a cut (of profits, etc.), to exploit, to extort

to smear, to rub on to (something), to spread over (something) / to lay blame on (someone), to attribute responsibility to (someone)