CUT OFF ONE'S NOSE TO SPITE ONE'S FACE Definition & Meaning

cut off one's nose to spite one's face

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Idioms and Phrases

Injure oneself out of pique. For example, Staying home because Meg was invited first is cutting off your nose to spite your face . Similar hyperboles appeared in several Latin proverbs; in English the expression was first recorded in 1561.

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Anyway, no one stays a Radical when he gets to be his own father, as it would be absurd to cut off one's nose to spite one's face—don't you think so, Mamma?

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It was to cut off one's nose to spite one's face.

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