under one's nose
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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
To have a possibility snatched from under one's nose without warning is annoying, especially if the season in possibilities threatens to be poor.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
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
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
They would lope across the floor under one's nose, or dangle their tails from the beams overhead, and I slept with a big stick handy.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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