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no skin off one's nose
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Not harmful or bothersome to one, as in I don't care if you stay home—it's no skin off my nose . This expression probably arose in boxing, but there is no evidence to prove it. [Early 1900s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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