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poke one's nose into
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Idioms and Phrases
Pry into or meddle in another's affairs, as in I told her to stop poking her nose into our business . This usage replaced the earlier thrust one's nose into in the mid-1800s.Discover More
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That is why, to my mind, nothing is more absurd, preposterous, than to go and poke one's nose into the private life of geniuses.
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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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