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with nose in the air

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with your nose in the air

behaving as if you think you are better than other people and do not want to speak to them I quite often see him in the street and he always walks past with his nose in the air.

See cut off nose to spite face, follow nose, keep nose clean, keep nose out of, keep nose to the grindstone, lead by the nose, look down nose at, pay through the nose, powder nose, rub nose in it, thumb nose at, turn nose up

See also: air, nose