nose about

1. Also, nose around. Look for something, especially something private or hidden. For example, She was always nosing about the kitchen, looking in all the cupboards, or The detective nosed around the apartment. [Second half of 1800s]

Example Sentences

"He is someone who can be crude and cruel and also incredibly funny and insightful, and very on the nose about the world he lives in," she said.

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However, some people will simply like having a nose about.

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I've seen people online saying that those are all conscious nods, and in all honesty, I don't think we would consciously be that on the nose about it.

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It was Gogol, of course, and not Kafka who wrote the absurdist short story “The Nose,” about a man whose nose leaves his face and takes on a life of its own.

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These set pieces are easily read as Trump-era allegories, and occasionally Saunders can be overly on the nose about that.

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