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under one's nose











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But still, you see, one's often blind to many a thing that lies right under one's nose, till it's pointed out.

From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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)

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)

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

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




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