turn up one's nose



turn up one's nose

Regard with disdain or scorn, as in She turned up her nose at the broccoli. This idiom was first recorded in 1779.
See also: nose, turn, up

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Penuel-Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
TatjanaTAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
Soutaso:-tahJapanese
Sizwe-Southern African, Xhosa
DorothÉEdo-ro-TEFrench
Mehetabelmi-HET-ə-bel (English), mee-HET-ə-bel (English)Biblical