stick up one's nose

Pat Mey User Posts: 3

I don't understand exactly what "they stuck up their nose" means, it's from the song "skater boy" of Avril Lavigne; is it like to snub somebody?

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Fugendichter User Posts: 587

it could mean: "thinking that tey are more important than other people and behaving in an unfriendly way towards them (snobbish)"
it seems more informal than "to snub: to offend by ingnoring or to insult someone.

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Spoiler User Posts: 496

It refers to the posture of a person who thinks he is too important, too superior in order to talk to others
he deems inferior: They hold the head high, which is a physical way of ignoring other people's presence whilst
showing alleged superiority to them: They stick up their nose (to the sky)

Some adjectives for the state of mind of those people are: snobbish, conceited, arrogant, pompous, supercilious, snooty, priggish...

I know a bunch people like that. But Thank God only a bunch of people.

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Pat Mey User Posts: 3

From Fugendichter:
it could mean: "thinking that tey are more important than other people and behaving in an unfriendly way towards them (snobbish)"
it seems more informal than "to snub: to offend by ingnoring or to insult someone.

thank you, it helps me.

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Pat Mey User Posts: 3

From Spoiler:
It refers to the posture of a person who thinks he is too important, too superior in order to talk to others
he deems inferior: They hold the head high, which is a physical way of ignoring other people's presence whilst
showing alleged superiority to them: They stick up their nose (to the sky)

Some adjectives for the state of mind of those people are: snobbish, conceited, arrogant, pompous, supercilious, snooty, priggish...

I know a bunch people like that. But Thank God only a bunch of people.

Thank you too, it confirms my understanding

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