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turn up one's nose



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Idioms and Phrases

Regard with disdain or scorn, as in She turned up her nose at the broccoli . This idiom was first recorded in 1779.
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To disdain the undershirt on the grounds that it’s “uncouth†is to turn up one’s nose at the blue-collar shirt sometimes worn over it.

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Mistress Boris began to mutter under her breath that it was absurd and affected to turn up one's nose at these respectable eatables, which were quite as good as those they had eaten in their grandfather's house.

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I know it's the fashion," Mr. Fischer said, "to turn up one's nose at steamer acquaintances.

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I know that it is prettier to turn up one's nose at ready cash.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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