under one's nose
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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)
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