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Pb03 Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

meaing of some phrase..



Hi,

I need to know the meaing of the part underlined below.

I've tried to imagine the situation but probably due to the lack of my imagination, I couldn't figure it out.

If you have an idea, would you tell me what it is?

Thanks as always!

pb

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W: Tilt your head up a bit. Don’t look like you have your nose in a book.
M: OK, how’s this? You do know that I’m not good at being a model.


  

Top answer

To "have your nose in a book" simply means that you're reading. Reading with intensity. Picture how you look when you are really engrossed in a story.

— BarbaraPA

  • To "have your nose in a book" simply means that you're reading.
  • Reading with intensity.
  • Picture how you look when you are really engrossed in a story.
  • Your nose is not really touching to book, but it's pointed that way.
  • ) Anyway, the person is saying not to look he's reading something, not to keep his head and eyes facing down, as though looking at something below him.
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To "have your nose in a book" simply means that you're reading. Reading with intensity. Picture how you look when you are really engrossed in a story. Your nose is not really touching to book, but it's pointed that way. My mother was always saying to me, as we took car trips across the US, "How can you see the pretty scenery when you've got your nose in a book?" (Nowadays, I'd throw up if I tried
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