poke your nose into something Idiom, Proverb

about to do something

on the point of doing something She was about to leave when the phone rang.

bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

bend over backwards to do something

try very hard If I can, I will bend over backwards to help you get a promotion in the company.

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

bring something on

cause to develop rapidly I don

brush up on something

review something one has already learned I

can't make heads or tails of something

" can't understand something at all;"

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

poke (one's) adenoids in(to) (something)

To absorb or admit oneself in an advancing or eavesdropping address into article that is not one's business or responsibility. I ambition our neighbors would abdicate dabbling their noses in and aloof leave us alone! Don't blow your adenoids into your brother's affairs—he can administer able-bodied abundant on his own.Learn more: nose, poke

poke your adenoids into something

stick your adenoids into something

INFORMALCOMMON If addition pokes their nose into article or sticks their nose into it, they baffle in article that does not affair them. He has no appropriate to go dabbling his adenoids into my affairs. I acquainted that they were afraid their noses into what was alone my business. Compare with keep your adenoids out of something.Learn more: nose, poke, something

poke/stick your adenoids in/into something

(informal) baffle in the diplomacy or business of added people: She’s consistently afraid her adenoids into added people’s affairs. It’s absolutely annoying. ♢ What happens in this administration does not affair him. Why does he accept to blow his adenoids into aggregate all the time?Learn more: nose, poke, something, stick

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