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nose in the air

The body language most of us have experienced when a friend passes you in public and with head tilted back and nose in the air gives you a first class snub!
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Shirley walked right past me entering the mall and her nose was scraping the beautiful cumulus clouds in the morning sky!

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Submitted by WerterBuch on August 31, 2015

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