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not to be sneezed at
not to be sneezed at
not to be sneezed at
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]
See also:
not
,
sneeze
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Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
BrÍD
-
Irish
Gul
-
Urdu, Pashto
Maja (2)
MIE-ah
(German, Polish)
Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovak
Jen
[dʒen]
Zarah
-
Biblical
Iuvenalis
-
Ancient Roman
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