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nose in the air, have one's



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Idioms and Phrases

Be haughty or disdainful, as in Ever since we moved in, our next-door neighbor has had her nose in the air . The related phrase with one's nose in the air means “haughtily,” as in She thinks she's so smart; she's always walking around with her nose in the air . Also see turn up one's nose at .

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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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