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
Well, I am glad of it, Mrs. G., because, I assure you, that fogo must be a sickening one to carry about under one's nose.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
As I see it, at all events, it's a strange little evolution and all taking place here, quite compactly, under one's nose.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
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
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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