hold one's nose up

English

Verb

hold one's nose up (third-person singular simple present holds one's nose up, present participle holding one's nose up, simple past and past participle held one's nose up)

1. To be disdainful or dismissive towards something.

   Synonym: turn one's nose up

   • 1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5:

     The era of the "church-basement liberal" is over. Those who sit around meeting in the church basements of Cambridge, holding their noses up at the prospect of supporting candidates who don't agree with every last one of their issues, had exactly zero influence in this year's critical elections.