英语词汇turn up one-s nose的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	turn up one-s nose
词源	turn up one’s nose. Turn up one’s nose means “to show con- tempt or disdain.” Lord Byron may have coined this phrase in Don Juan (1819), writing of “Antonia . . . turning up her nose, with looks abused her master.” But a century or so earlier, hold up one’s nose had been recorded as meaning “to be proud and haughty.”
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