nose out of joint
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A face-off between the two newspapers "put Mirror owner Robert Maxwell's nose out of joint", according to sticker expert and author Greg Lansdowne.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2021
Mr. Brody had insisted on performing his own stunts, Mr. Leguizamo recalled, and for his trouble got a clout in the face that literally and permanently put his nose out of joint.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2015
But he shouldn’t get his nose out of joint.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2012
Colorado's Senator Costigan threatened that august tribunal with a Constitutional amendment which would put its nose out of joint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or that the ack-ack-ack of the German machine gun is really just a woodpecker getting his nose out of joint.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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