| 单词 | cock a snook at somebody/something |
| 释义 | cock a snook at somebody/somethingcock a snook at somebody/something RUDE/IMPOLITE British EnglishBrE informal to show clearly that you do not respect someone or something 对某人/某物嗤之以鼻，对某人/某物不屑一顾 He has always tried to cock a snook at authority. 他总是试图蔑视权威。 Examples from the Corpus cock a snook at somebody/something• Tom Keating spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world.• The federal parliament also cocked a snook at the United Nations administration in Kosovo. → cock a snook at somebody/something at cock2(2) |
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