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hiromichi
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 Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: gesture: tweak someone's nose |
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Does the captioned phrase mean telling a lie to someone?
North Korea has been tweaking the world's nose since the 1980s, when it signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation
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Philo Kevetch
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Hello Hiromichi -
literally, 'tweak' means to 'pinch' ones' nose using thumb and/or finger
in your example, it is used figuratively to mean 'bother/tease/disrespect/give a hard time' etc. Philo |
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Philo Kevetc, I got it. Thank you very much.
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