| 单词 | to rub a person's nose in it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rub (also occasionally push) a person's nose in it g. to rub (also occasionally push) a person's nose in it: to draw a person's attention to an embarrassing or painful fact, esp. in an emphatic way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] > by reminding of fault to rub (also occasionally push) a person's nose in it1929 1929 New Yorker 27 July 32/1 ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, the German tale which closes a mighty hand on the neck of the squirming human race and instructively, punitively, rubs its nose in the war. 1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air v. 93 It wants somebody to tell him he's a tick and rub his nose in it. 1963 P. M. Hubbard Flush as May xiii. 121 I'm sorry. I've said I'm sorry... Don't rub my nose in it. 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy i. 18 Using me on a hard news story would be pushing their noses in it—treating them like a branch office with printing facilities. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 27 They had more coke, better weed, bigger gold, prettier women. They loved rubbing our noses in it. < as lemmas |
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