Thumb your nose at someone/something
라이언의 꿀팁백과
to show no respect, or to raise the end of your thumb to the end of your nose to show that you do not respect someone:
- Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. (Proverbs 1:7 MSG)
- He has thumbed his nose at authority all his life.
- She enjoyed thumbing her nose at the establishment.
- Once again, he thumbed his nose at his critics.
- She claimed that the administration was thumbing its nose at the law.
- This was her way of thumbing her nose at the media.
- These are people who thumb their noses at the rules.