| 单词 | rub someone's nose in it |
| 释义 | rub someone's nose in itBring something, especially an error or fault, repeatedly and forcefully to someone's attention. For example, I know I was wrong, but don't rub my nose in it. This expression alludes to the unkind practice of housebreaking a dog by rubbing its nose in its feces. [Mid-1900s] Words nearby rub someone's nose in itrubricated, rubrician, rubricyte, rubrospinal decussation, rubrum lily, rub someone's nose in it, rubstone, rub the wrong way, Rubtsovsk, rub up, rub up on The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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