lead someone by the nose Idiom, Proverb

brown nose

try to please the manager, suck up to Some guys brown nose their way to success. But is it success?

cut off your nose to spite your face

make your problem worse, hurt yourself because you dislike yourself If you abuse drugs to forget a problem, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.

hard nosed

"firm, tough; refusing to lower his price or standard" Ms. Bond is hard nosed. If you plagiarize, you fail the course.

have one's nose in something

unwelcome interest in something, impolite curiosity My boss always has his nose in other peoples' business so he is not very well-liked.

hold your nose

accept it but not like it, look the other way This plan is better than no plan, so hold your nose and vote for it.

keep your nose clean

stay out of trouble, toe the line Keep your nose clean, and you'll get out of prison sooner.

keep your nose to the grindstone

continue to work hard Keep your nose to the grindstone and you'll pass the final exam.

lead by the nose

make or persuade someone to do anything you want My sister has been leading her husband by the nose since they got married.

look down your nose at

look at a person as though he is not as good as you Just because he's rich he looks down his nose at us.

no skin off my nose

no bother to me, will not hurt me If he doesn't come to my party it's no skin off my nose.

lead (one) (around) by the nose

To apply a aerial amount of ascendancy over addition else. I can't angle the way your mother leads you about by the adenoids like that and tells you what to do!Learn more: by, lead, nose

lead addition by the nose

lead addition about by the nose

If addition leads you by the nose or leads you around by the nose, they ascendancy you absolutely so that you do whatever they want. This nation has been led by the adenoids in adopted affairs. The Government has let itself be led by the adenoids by the balk trade. Note: This announcement is acclimated to announce that the actuality or alignment actuality controlled is weak. Note: Bulls and added animals sometimes accept rings through their noses so that a braiding can be angry to the arena in adjustment to advance them along. This announcement is acclimated in Shakespeare's comedy Othello, back Iago says Othello `will as affectionately be led by the adenoids as asses are.' (Act I, Scene 3) Learn more: by, lead, nose, someone

lead addition by the nose

ascendancy addition totally, abnormally by artful them. informal The angel actuality is of an beastly actuality controlled by a abstemiousness annular or in the nose. Shakespeare acclimated this announcement in Othello ( 1604 ): ‘The Moor…will as affectionately be led by th'nose As asses are’.Learn more: by, lead, nose, someone

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