under one's nose
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
