joint Idiom

blow this joint

leave this building, quit this place I'm sick of playing billiards. Let's blow this joint.

nose is out of joint

she is upset, he is not pleased Ed's nose is out of joint because the Liberals lost the election.

out of joint

(See nose is out of joint)

stink the joint out

play very poorly, perform badly In Chicago, we stunk the joint out, losing 7-1 to the Hawks.

Amp Joint

a marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic

bust a joint

to smoke a cannabis cigarette

put one's nose out of joint

Idiom(s): put one's nose out of joint

Theme: INSULT

to offend someone; to cause someone to feel slighted or insulted. (Informal.)
• I'm afraid I put his nose out of joint by not inviting him to the picnic.
• There is no reason to put your nose out of joint. I meant no harm.

Put somebody's nose out of joint

If you put someone's nose out of joint, you irritate them or make them angry with you.

case the joint|case|joint

v. phr., slang 1. To study the layout of a place one wishes to burglarize. The hooded criminals carefully cased the joint before robbing the neighborhood bank. 2. To familiarize oneself with a potential workplace or vacation spot as a matter of preliminary planning. "Hello Fred," he said. "Are you working here now?" "No, not yet," Fred answered. "I am merely casing the joint."

clip joint|clip|joint

n., slang A low-class night club or other business where people are cheated. The man got drunk and lost all his money in a clip joint. The angry woman said the store was a clip joint.

put one's nose out of joint|joint|nose|out of join

v. phr., informal 1. To make you jealous; leave you out of favor. When Jane accepted Tom's invitation it put Jack's nose out of joint. 2. To ruin your plans; cause you disappointment. Joe's mother put his nose out of joint by not letting him go to the movie.

joint

joint
see nose out of joint, have one's; out of joint.

nose out of joint, have one's

nose out of joint, have one's
Be upset or irritated, especially when displaced by someone. For example, Ever since Sheila got promoted he's had his nose out of joint. Similarly, put one's nose out of joint indicates the cause of the upset, as in The boss's praise of her assistant put Jean's nose out of joint. The earliest form of this idiom, first recorded in 1581, was thrust one's nose out of joint, with put appearing shortly thereafter. Presumably all these expressions allude to the face-distorting grimace made by one who is displeased.