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look down one's nose at
He looks down his nose at his classmates'interest in Jazz．他鄙视班上的同学醉心于爵士乐。
Jerry was the athlete who looked down his nose at the weak students．杰里是位运动员，他看不起身体不强壮的学生。
Why do you always look down your nose at people who aren't dreesed as smartly as you？你为什么总要看不起那些穿着不如你潇洒的人呢？
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v. phr., informal To think of as worthless; feel scorn for. The banker's wife has beautiful china cups, and she looked down her nose at the plastic cups that Mrs. Brown used. Harry has never had to work, and he looks down his nose at people in business. Jerry was the athlete who looked down his nose at the weak student.look down (one's) adenoids at (someone or something)
To attention oneself as above to others and appropriately act in a assuming or aloof manner. The well-dressed agent looked down his adenoids at the abandoned man sitting on the corner. Once Jane was answer to management, she looked down her adenoids at the bodies who acclimated to be her colleagues.Learn more: down, look, noselook down one's adenoids at, to
To attention or amusement addition with disdain. One biographer suggests that this appellation comes from a accepted attitude of disapproval apparent by blurred the eyelids and attractive downward, thereby absorption on one’s own nose. This account does not accord with the anatomy accent complex in about-face up one’s nose, yet both expressions absorb antipathy or disdain, and indeed, to attending down on has meant cogent antipathy from about 1700; nose was added about 1900. “He went in to attending down his adenoids at them—it ability accord him some aside satisfaction,” wrote John Galsworthy (To Let, 1921).Learn more: down, look, nose, to
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