Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for under one's nose. Search instead for under+one's+own+steam.
Definitions

under one's nose











Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Well, I am glad of it, Mrs. G., because, I assure you, that fogo must be a sickening one to carry about under one's nose.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

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

Mildred could not resist—and who can when seated at table with the dish before one's eyes and under one's nose.

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham

To have a possibility snatched from under one's nose without warning is annoying, especially if the season in possibilities threatens to be poor.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

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)




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "under one's nose" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com