{"id":72867,"date":"2019-11-15T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72867"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:10:40","slug":"idioms-and-expressions-with-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-and-expressions-with-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms And Expressions With Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idiomatic expressions using the word nose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get right up your nose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something gets right up your nose, it annoys you a lot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her impudence got right up my nose.<\/li>\n<li>His laziness really gets up my nose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Have a good nose for something<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To have a nose for something is to have the ability to find or recognize it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A journalist must have a nose for a good news story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keep your nose out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When somebody asks you to keep your nose out, they don\u2019t want you to know about things which are private.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was so officious that I had to ask him to keep his nose out.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your nose out of my business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poke \/ shove \/ stick your nose into something<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To poke your nose into something is to show too much interest in other people\u2019s private matters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What I really don\u2019t understand is why you should poke your nose into my affairs.<\/li>\n<li>He has this nasty habit of sticking his nose into my business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rub someone\u2019s nose in something<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you rub someone\u2019s nose in something, you keep reminding them about things they do not want to think about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know I made a mistake \u2013 you don\u2019t have to rub my nose in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Turn your nose up (at something)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To turn your nose up at something is to refuse to accept it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We offered her a very good job, but she turned her nose up at it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Under someone\u2019s nose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something happens under your nose, it happens in a situation where you should notice it, but you do not.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The robbery took place right under the noses of the police.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>With your nose in the air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an attitude that shows that you think you are better or more important than other people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ever since winning that beauty pageant, she has been walking around with her nose in the air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of idiomatic expressions using the word nose. Get right up your nose When something gets right up your nose, it annoys you a lot. Her impudence got right up my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[186,1874,1873],"class_list":["post-72867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-idioms-2","tag-idioms-with-nose","tag-nose-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72868,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72867\/revisions\/72868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}