NOSE OUT OF JOINT

  

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NOSE OUT OF JOINT

Specialty Definition: NOSE OUT OF JOINT

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Nose Out of Joint To put one's nose out of joint is to supplant a person in another's good graces. To put another person's nose where yours is now. There is a good French locution, "Lui couper l'herbe sous le picd. ' (In Latin, "Aliquem de jure suo dejicere. ' Sometimes it means to humiliate a conceited person.
"Fearing now least this wench which is brought over hither should put your nose out the joynt, comining betweene home and you."- Terence in English (1614). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: NOSE OUT OF JOINT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disrepute

Obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance.

Success

Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.

Superiority

Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expressions: NOSE OUT OF JOINT

Expressions using "NOSE OUT OF JOINT": put one's nose out of joint put smb.'s nose out of joint To put one's nose out of joint. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: NOSE OUT OF JOINT

Language Translations for "NOSE OUT OF JOINT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

kiüt a nyeregből vkit (to put sy's nose out of joint). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osenay outay ofay ointjay

   

Romanian

  

spulbera speranţele cuiva (put smb.'s nose out of joint), deruta pe cineva (put smb.'s nose out of joint, throw dust into smb.'s eyes). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

papucunu dama attırmak (put smb.'s nose out of joint), kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), gözden düşürmek (discredit, disgrace, put smb.'s nose out of joint), burnunu sürtmek (deflate, make a dent in, make smb. eat humble pie, put smb.'s nose out of joint, set down, sit, teach smb.'s lesson), ayağını kaydırmak (do, make smb. loose his job, put smb.'s nose out of joint, supersede, supplant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NOSE OUT OF JOINT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-j-n-n-o-o-o-o-s-t-t-u"

-5 letters: footnotes, footstone.

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Alternative Orthography: NOSE OUT OF JOINT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 53 45      4F 55 54      4F 46      4A 4F 49 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01001010 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#85 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#74 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 0053 0045      004F 0055 0054      004F 0046      004A 004F 0049 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4849533924955542494024449434854

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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