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not to be sneezed at



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Also, nothing to sneeze at . Not to be ignored or dismissed, as in It's a great honor, not to be sneezed at , or That salary of his is nothing to sneeze at . This expression presumably alludes to turning up one's nose in disdain. [c. 1800]

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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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Nottmnot to mention