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to cut off your nose to spite one's face
Definition
(Expression) When you throw away something that you would have liked just to look don't carish and spite someone.Usage: Didn't you cut of your nose to spite one's face when you rejected the offer of leading the football team?
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to be hit by the thunderbolt
to be in a fix
to be late
to be no mean feat
to be off -color
to be off colour
to be on the bum
to be on your uppers
to be over ones time
to be tatted up
to be under a duty
To be under the weather
to blow one's own trumpet
to catch a cold
to catch red-handed
to cooperate
to dip
to disappear
to dot all the I's and cross all the T's
to draw the line
to eat
to encounter
to feed
to flag off
to gild the lily
To give oneself airs
To give someone the business
to give/lend colour to
to go on
to go to town
to have ants in your pants
to be in a fix
to be late
to be no mean feat
to be off -color
to be off colour
to be on the bum
to be on your uppers
to be over ones time
to be tatted up
to be under a duty
To be under the weather
to blow one's own trumpet
to catch a cold
to catch red-handed
to cooperate
to cut off your nose to spite one's face
to die forto dip
to disappear
to dot all the I's and cross all the T's
to draw the line
to eat
to encounter
to feed
to flag off
to gild the lily
To give oneself airs
To give someone the business
to give/lend colour to
to go on
to go to town
to have ants in your pants