turn one's nose up
Snub with contempt
To turn one's nose up is to reject something with disdain or show contempt for it, as if literally tilting one's head back to avoid an unpleasant smell: She turned her nose up at the job offer, He turns his nose up at anything that isn't organic.
The phrase implies snobbery—dismissing something as beneath one's standards rather than simply declining it.
- condescendAct superior toward others
- patronizeAct superior toward
- high and mightyImperiously self-important
- disgustIntense physical aversion
- spurnRefuse with contempt
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