English Dictionary

turn up one's nose

verb

To make the gesture of raising one's nose, as a sign of scorn, contempt or disgust.

She turned up her nose at the idea of eating fast food.

意味（1）

To make the gesture of raising one's nose, as a sign of scorn, contempt or disgust.

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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, with "at") To regard with contempt or scorn; to treat with contempt or scorn; to ignore or disregard in a contemptuous or scornful way.

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

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.

意味（3）

(idiomatic, with "at") To refuse, especially with disgust, contempt or scorn; to refuse with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.

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