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STICK (ONE'S) NOSE IN

to try to find out about someone else’s private business
STICK (ONE'S) NOSE IN
1. Don’t stick your nose in where it’s not wanted. This matter is between Pat and me, and it has nothing to do with you.
2. I mind my own business, and don’t get involved in other people’s personal affairs. I don’t stick my nose in where it doesn’t belong.

Antonym: mind (one’s) own business. The expression stick one’s nose in has a negative connotation.


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