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under one's nose











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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

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

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

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.




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