under one's nose
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The man one can't find with all one's messengers sent about the place, sitting just under one's nose, exactly where one never thought of looking!
From The Idiot by Eva M. Martin
As if one hasn't got puzzles enough, and bothers enough, under one's nose, without going a-field after a lot of metaphysical quibbles.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Usually they are hollow tubes of paper which just flare away under one's nose and are done.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Mildred could not resist—and who can when seated at table with the dish before one's eyes and under one's nose.
From The Price She Paid by David Graham Phillips
But still, you see, one's often blind to many a thing that lies right under one's nose, till it's pointed out.
From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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