under one's nose
Example Sentences
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The man one can't find with all one's messengers sent about the place, sitting just under one's nose, exactly where one never thought of looking!
From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.
To have a possibility snatched from under one's nose without warning is annoying, especially if the season in possibilities threatens to be poor.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
Mildred could not resist—and who can when seated at table with the dish before one's eyes and under one's nose.
From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham
Well, I am glad of it, Mrs. G., because, I assure you, that fogo must be a sickening one to carry about under one's nose.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
Usually they are hollow tubes of paper which just flare away under one's nose and are done.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
