10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GET UP SOMEONE'S NOSE»
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
1 get up someone's nose informal it really got up my nose, and it occured to me to
wonder why it was so annoying: annoy, aggravate, irritate, exasperate, anger, irk,
vex, put out, nettle, provoke, incense, rile, infuriate, antagonize, make ...
... to spite one's face fil SSIIA&MST § £. ; BttUTo anger his parents, Tom married
that stupid widow — cutting off his nose to spite his face. S °) to follow one's nose
W. FOLLOW to get up someone's nose L f '41 J K 'I '. >fi to hold one's nose Sf±#?
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... get someone's goat; get someone's nanny-goat; get someone's shirt out; get up
someone's nose; give someone the pip; nark; piss someone off; rip; tee someone
off; tick someone off Annoying balls-aching Something annoying aggro; chizz; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson,
2010
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
get up someone's nose colloq to annoy them. • keep one's nose clean colloq to
avoid doing anything that might get one into trouble. • look down or turn up one's
nose at something or someone colloq to show disdain for it or them. • nose to tail
...
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Little Red Book of Idioms and Phrases
... trying to disadvantage another Get up someone's nose Irritate or annoy
someone Give someone a bloody nose Inflicta resoundingdefeaton someone
Have a nose for Have an instinctive talent for detecting (something) Keep your
nose clean ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
6 This idea was proverbial for self-defeating malice in both medieval Latin and
medieval French, and has been found in English since the mid 16th century.
follow your nose: see FOLLOW. get up someone's nose irritate or annoy
someone.
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Colour Oxford Thesaurus
2 (informal) you'll only aggravate him! annoy, antagonize, irritate, exasperate,
nettle, provoke, get on someone's nerves; Brit. rub up the wrong way; informal
needle, hack off, get someone's goat, get up someone's nose; Brit. informal wind
up; ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite,
2011
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... front manage to achieve a winning or leading position. get up someone's nose
Brit. informal irritate or annoy someone. give someone a bloody nose inflict a
resounding defeat on someone. have one's nose in a book be reading studiously
or ...
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Concise English Dictionary
cut off one's nose to spite one's face to injure oneself rather than fail to injure
another; follow one's nose to go straight forward; get up someone's nose (coll.) to
annoy, irritate someone; keep one's nose clean (coll.) lo keep out of trouble, i.e.
not ...
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A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian
... far girare le scatole22 'get up someone's nose'/'be a pain in the neck to
somebody', far venire i nervi 'to get on someone's nerves', etc., may also be part
of the causative construction: Lucio fece leggere alla sorella l'ultima lettera
spedita da ...
Martin Maiden, Cecilia Robustelli,
2014
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We're fairly certain the romance will get up someone's nose - if Carson doesn't have something to say about it, it's bound to irritate ... «Radio Times, Dec 12»