10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURN UP ONE'S NOSE»
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turn up one's nose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
turn up one's nose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
But after some arm-twisting from plastic surgeons and other doctors, Senate
Democrats relented on the Botox levy. —Las Vegas Review-Journal (10/1/2011)
Everybody just tosses in their two cents and decides what. turn up one's nose,
thumb ...
... nose into i fHfyit-LM i SlUMMXZM (Don't poke your nose into other's affair. fft^T-
ilTfil itiKzm - ) to thrust one's nose in J>i THRUST to thumb one's nose !tL THUMB
* to turn up one's nose at SI, ^21 ! Sj""'9t (She turned up her nose at my humble ...
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A Dictionary Marathi and English
favi-'i>T'5TfV5f-%^irf &c. To draw in, dilate, and swell one's nose with anger; to
snort, to storm, to bluster, ^^if To blow the nose. To turn up one's nose daintily or
haughtily. vf\H Vlfii g. of o. To nip, blast, foil, put down. ?TT^5 ^l^sr {fiKvi &c.) To
put ...
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Michelangelo's
Nose: A Myth and Its Maker
... to have one's nose to the grindstone, to have one's nose out of joint, to nose
around, to brown-nose, to be hard-nosed, to have a nose job, to nose out or win
by a nose, to keep one's nose clean, to powder one's nose, to turn up one's nose,
...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
look down or turn up one's nose at something or someone colloq to show disdain
for it or them. • nose to tail said of cars: in a slow-moving queue with the front of
one almost touching the rear of the one in front. • not see beyond or further than ...
... neck and crop : Mlo6^o6 to take pepper in the nose : -1l<*>le1l fH<»MI to turn
up one's nose at : -ll^dls y<6"l. to thrust (or poke) one's nose into another man's
affairs : el I SI <f K*TR to lead by the nose : under one's nose : to follow one's
nose ...
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Allied Chambers transliterated Hindi-Hindi-English dictionary
... one's shoulder, nak ragadna ^rrer w^rr to beseech very humbly; to eat humble
pie. ndk rakhna TPJT W=rr to save or preserve one's honour, to have a good
name unsullied. nak sakorna =rPTr *reu"*«rr to turn up one's nose, to be
displeased, ...
S. S. Parikh, D. F. Plukker, R. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, 1993
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The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
5 shorten (a garment). turn up one's nose (or turn one's nose up) react with
disdain. 1⁄2 v. 1 rotate, revolve, spin, roll, reel, circle, gyrate, pirouette, whirl,
wheel, pivot, orbit, swivel, spiral, twirl. 2 turn upside down, turn inside out. 3 b
veer, swing, ...
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
5 shorten (a garment). turn up one's nose (or turn one's nose up) react with
disdain. • v. 1 rotate, revolve, spin, roll, reel, circle, gyrate, pirouette, whirl, wheel,
pivot, orbit, swivel, spiral, twirl. 2 turn upside down, turn inside out. 3 b veer,
swing, ...
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A Dictionary Murathee English: compiled for the Government ...
JTW STOt To turn up one's nose, to sneer at. MKPqT <T*T or Trfar The bridge of
the nose. ^fPUT To teaze, to twit, to gibe, to fling sarcasms at. Tr*t?I Trraw To
speak through the nose, to snuffle. TI*H Vt^$n0tt To vaunt perfect purity from, and
to ...
James T. Molesworth, 1831
