under one's nose
Example Sentences
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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 Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
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 James, Henry
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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Usually they are hollow tubes of paper which just flare away under one's nose and are done.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
