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poke one's nose into

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  1. 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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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.

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