![]() ![]() To be as plain as the nose on one's face "very easy to be seen or understood" is from 1590s. To say something is under (one's) nose "in plain view, directly in front of one" is from mid-15c. To turn up one's nose "show disdain, express scorn or contempt" is from 1818 (earlier hold up one's nose, 1570s) a similar notion is expressed in look down one's nose (1907). ![]() Many extended meanings are from the horse-racing sense of "length of a horse's nose," as a measure of distance between two finishers (1908). To pay through the nose "pay excessively" (1670s) seems to suggest bleeding. Kiv, It could bee no other then his owne manne, that had thrust his nose so farre out of ioynte. In Middle English, to have one's spirit in one's nose was to "be impetuous or easily angered" (c. Meaning "sense of smell" is from mid-14c. ( nose cone in the space rocket sense is from 1949). Amber: 'Someone turn off the light, its putting a glare on the tv. The last person to call nose goes has to do the task. To call nose goes, you simply place your index finger on your nose, and say 'nose goes'. of any prominent or projecting part supposed to resemble a nose from late 14c. Nose goes - slang A way of determining who has to do a task, such as close a door or turn off a light after everyone is seated. Used of beaks or snouts of animals from mid-13c. ![]() Middle English nose, from Old English nosu "the nose of the human head, the special organ of breathing and smelling," from Proto-Germanic *nuso- (source also of Old Norse nös, Old Frisian nose, Dutch neus, Old High German nasa, German Nase), from PIE root *nas- "nose." ![]()
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