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English Idioms :: sneeze at
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sneeze.html - {v.}, {informal} To think of as not important; not take seriously. - Used with negative or limiting words and in questions. * /Mr. Jones was chosen by his party to run for President. He was not elected, but to be chosen to run is not to be sneezed at./ * /If you think Mrs. Green's tests are things to be sneezed at, you have a surprise coming./ * / Is a thousand dollars anything to sneeze at?/ * /John finished third in a race with twenty other runners. That is nothing to sneeze at./ |
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Traditional English :: sneeze
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sneeze.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth caused by irritation of the nostrils. 2 the sound of this. --v.not to be sneezed at colloq. not contemptible; considerable; notable. sneezer n. sneezy adj. [ME snese, app. alt. of obs. fnese f. OE -fnesan, ON fn°sa & replacing earlier and less expressive nese] |
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Traditional English :: sneezewort
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sneeze.html - n. a kind of yarrow, Achillea ptarmica, whose dried leaves are used to induce sneezing. |
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English Idioms :: sneeze at
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sneeze.html - {v.}, {informal} To think of as not important; not take seriously. - Used with negative or limiting words and in questions. * /Mr. Jones was chosen by his party to run for President. He was not elected, but to be chosen to run is not to be sneezed at./ * /If you think Mrs. Green's tests are things to be sneezed at, you have a surprise coming./ * / Is a thousand dollars anything to sneeze at?/ * /John finished third in a race with twenty other runners. That is nothing to sneeze at./ |
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Traditional English :: sneeze
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sneeze.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth caused by irritation of the nostrils. 2 the sound of this. --v.not to be sneezed at colloq. not contemptible; considerable; notable. sneezer n. sneezy adj. [ME snese, app. alt. of obs. fnese f. OE -fnesan, ON fn°sa & replacing earlier and less expressive nese] |
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Traditional English :: sneezewort
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sneeze.html - n. a kind of yarrow, Achillea ptarmica, whose dried leaves are used to induce sneezing. |
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