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put someone's nose out of joint informal Offend someone or hurt their pride: she likes being the queen bee, and you’ve put her nose out of joint...- Since starting this blog, more than one of these individuals has told me that things are different in Bermuda and that I should be careful what I say lest I put someone's nose out of joint.
- So to put her nose out of joint because I also was feeling childish, I did some fairly ‘hard’ ones.
- ‘Totti will certainly put Del Piero's nose out of joint if the picture on the front page is anything to go by,’ says Magnus Blair.
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