nose (redirected from nosing)

nose something (out) (onto something)

to drive or push something carefully out onto the surface of something, nose first. I nosed the car out onto the highway, looking both ways. She nosed out the car.

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a nose for be as plain as the nose on your face blow nose brown-nose by a nose can't see beyond the end of nose count heads cut nose off to spite face cut off nose to spite face follow nose get nose out of business get nose out of joint and have nose out of joint; put nose out of ... get up nose give a bloody nose hard-nosed have a nose have a nose for have nose in a book have nose in the air hold nose It's no skin off my nose

it's no skin off nose keep nose clean keep nose out of keep nose out of business keep nose to the grindstone lead by the nose look down nose at Mind your own business no skin off teeth nose nose about nose around nose in nose is out of joint nose or a group out nose out nose out of nose to tail on the money on the nose one's nose is in the air

pay an arm and a leg pay through the nose poke nose in poke nose into powder nose put nose in put nose out of joint put nose to the grindstone put the feed bag on rub nose in it see no further than the end of nose stick nose up in the air take it on the chin thumb nose at toffee-nosed turn nose up turn nose up at under nose win by a nose with nose in the air