look down one's nose
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]look down one's nose (third-person singular simple present looks down one's nose, present participle looking down one's nose, simple past and past participle looked down one's nose)
- (idiomatic, usually followed by at) To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt.
- 1940, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The House of Lee, Kessinger, published 2005, →ISBN, page 98:
- You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them.
- 1952 March 24, “The Press: Fried Crow, à la Mode”, in Time:
- The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign.
- 2003, Joy Fielding, Whispers and Lies, →ISBN, page 7:
- [S]he has such a superior look about her, you know, like some snooty society matron, looking down her nose at the rest of us.
Translations
[edit]To regard as inferior or distasteful; to hold in contempt
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