under one's nose

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Under one's nose.

在某人鼻子底下。

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When sneaking around in places one is not supposed to be, one should tie a handkerchief around one's head and under one's nose.

当在一个不允许进入的地方鬼祟行动时，应该要用围巾绕过鼻子下来包里著头。

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GPs tend to give their own patients the benefit of the doubt, and a worker who feigns illness and gets a sick-note to wave under the boss's nose is harder to manage than one who has been tackled at an earlier stage.

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On the other hand, the bank's chairman and chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is utterly mortified that he allowed the loss to grow and grow, under his nose, and in spite of warnings in the media that one of the bank's London-based trading desks, home of the famous Whale, was engaging in huge and potentially risky transactions.

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