poke one's nose into

Idioms

Pry into or meddle in another's affairs, as in I told her to stop poking her nose into our business. This usage replaced the earlier thrust one's nose into in the mid-1800s.

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poke one's nose into

That is why, to my mind, nothing is more absurd, preposterous, than to go and poke one's nose into the private life of geniuses.

From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max

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