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Today's Idiom = "Turning Up Your Nose"

Turning Up Your Nose ( rejecting others because they are not good enough ... )

"turning up your nose"

"Turning up your nose" is acting like you are too good for other people or things. Example: "We invited them to dinner but they turned up their nose at us." Another example: "Don't turn your nose up at me!"

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