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Idioms and Phrases

Thumb one's nose, as in As soon as the teacher turned her back, the boys cocked a snook at her . This expression was first recorded in 1791 and the precise source of snook , here used in the sense of “a derisive gesture,” has been lost. It is more widely used in Britain but is not unknown in America.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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