turn up one's nose

When your turn came, you were carefully collared, and led up to the presence, as if even at that awful moment you were mutinously and murderously disposed. The Pasha, looking at you with a vicious sneer, turned up his nose, ejaculated "'Ajami," and prescribed the bastinado.

But he turned up his nose at their murmuring and stammering,

And cared (shall I say?) not a d—— for their damming;

So they first read him out of their church, and next minute

Turned round and declared he had never been in it.

I tried to help, but they turned up their noses at my advice.