under one's nose

Example Sentences

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As if one hasn't got puzzles enough, and bothers enough, under one's nose, without going a-field after a lot of metaphysical quibbles.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

Usually they are hollow tubes of paper which just flare away under one's nose and are done.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

They would lope across the floor under one's nose, or dangle their tails from the beams overhead, and I slept with a big stick handy.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

As I see it, at all events, it's a strange little evolution and all taking place here, quite compactly, under one's nose.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

The man one can't find with all one's messengers sent about the place, sitting just under one's nose, exactly where one never thought of looking!

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.