«KEEP ONE'S NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE» İLE İLİŞKİLİ İNGILIZCE KİTAPLAR
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
She could never learn to keep her nose out of her son 's private life, though she
was always made unhappy by what she discovered. □ 'When will you learn to
keep your nose out of my affairs? ' keep one's nose to the grindstone punoj pa ...
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
N96 To hold (keep) one's Nose to the grindstone (varied) 1647 Ward Simple
Cobler 44: If I be not much deceived, that Salus Populi suffered its nose to be
held to the Grindstone. 1692 Mather Wonders 155: She would hold his Nose as
close to ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Cheater's Guide
to Speaking English Like a Native
Keep one's nose to the grindstone I presume this saying came from the fact that
people who used a grindstone to sharpen knives and other instruments had to
bend over it, bringing their nose in close proximity to the stone, and keep focused
...
Boye Lafayette De Mente, 2007
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1983. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1985. To keep one's nose to the
grindstone (APP 264; ODEP 578; EAP 314; MP 451; DAP 432) 1947 the only
connection the modern nose has with the grindstone is to snub it. (p. 564) Agate,
James.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook
Alludes to a grindstone used to sharpen tools. This expression implies that one's
face (nose) remains close to one's work. Also put as keep one's nose to the
grindstone. 0 He had his nose to the grindstone for weeks trying to finish that
project.
RH to keep one's nose to the grindstone if.sS "?r ^ ; 3?^ I ft" (Robin /(('/)( his nose
to the grindstone all day long. 0 ttJtl ft •) to lead by the nose M, LEAD1 to look
down one's nose at 1. ! #-P^B 2. ; IE •••^#-0 * (Jessica always looked down her
nose ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Colloquial; late 1800s] keep one's nose to the grindstone 9 See NOSE TO THE
GRINDSTONE. keep one's own counsel Say little or nothing about one's opinions
or intentions. For example, Betty is notoriousfor keeping her own counsel; you ...
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... not to be diverted from * Keep your mind on what you are doing * It was too hot
to keep my mind on my studies Keep one's nose to the grindstone: Subject one to
severe continued toil or punishment * In the olden days the white made every ...
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Cartoon-illustrated Metaphors: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches, ...
stay hard at work // held to a task ** to slave continuously ** concentrated or
compelled effort — keep one's nose to the grindstone !! This expression alludes
to a tool that must be sharpened by being held to a grindstone. !! John Frith wrote
in A ...
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
... nose to spite one's face— fawn ^r* c*d »tcaa «c»i «tt«5l i To follow one's nose
— To go straightforward ; to be guided by instinct ; Clt9M ttf 511 ; 1?Sf?f^j si
nfiretfas ?«9ti To keep one's nose to the grindstone — See under GRIND ('
STONE'.
