stick one's nose into

stick one's nose into
to interfere or try to intervene in (an issue that does not concern one).

Social studies gives you an excuse to stick your nose into a broad range of subjects.

Syn: poke ones nose into

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  • stick one's nose into — To meddle officiously with ● nose …   Useful english dictionary

  • stick one's nose into — See: NOSE INTO …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • stick one's nose into — See: NOSE INTO …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • stick\ one's\ nose\ into — See: nose into …   Словарь американских идиом

  • poke one's nose into — verb to interfere or try to intervene in an issue that does not concern one. Have a nice day, Mr Perelman! said the cabbie. Listen! he said, Dont poke your nose into my affairs. Ill have the kind of day I want to. Syn: stick ones nose into …   Wiktionary

  • stick one's oar in — verb To meddle; to stick ones nose into (something) I dont want her coming and sticking her oar in she doesnt know anything about our financials. Syn: interfere, meddle, poke ones nose in …   Wiktionary

  • nose — I n. 1) to blow; wipe one s nose 2) to pick one s nose 3) an aquiline, Roman; bulbous; pug, snub, turned up nose 4) a bloody; running, runny nose (the child has a runny nose) 5) through the nose (to breathe through the nose) 6) a nose bleeds;… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • nose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. proboscis, snout, muzzle, beak, schnozzle (sl.); nasal or olfactory organ; nostrils. See convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The organ of smell] Syn. nasal organ, nasal cavity, nares, nasal passages,… …   English dictionary for students

  • nose — nose1 W2S2 [nəuz US nouz] n ↑ear, ↑nose, ↑tooth, ↑eye ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(on your face)¦ 2 (right) under somebody s nose 3 stick/poke your nose into something 4 keep your nose out (of something) 5 turn your nose up (at something) 6 with your nose in the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • stick — 1 /stIk/ verb past tense and past participle stuck 1 PUSH (transitive always + adv/prep, intransitive always + adv/prep) if a pointed object sticks into something or you stick it into something, it is pushed into it: stick sth in/into/through etc …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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