Stuck under the noses of children

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Hello every body.

But worse than the delay were all those diabolical last minutes temptations stuck under the noses of children out of their skills with boredom.

Does it mean while shopping children get tired and something get them out of skulls and parents should buy it?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

red park 287But worse than the delay were all those diabolical ~~last minutes~~ last-minute temptations stuck under the noses of children out of their ~~skills~~ skulls with boredom.

I don't see anything about shopping in your sentence, nor anything about parents, so it can't mean anything about children shopping or about parents buying anything.

CJ

CalifJim · Answer

red park 287Does it mean while shopping children get tired and something get them out of skulls and parents should buy it?

red park 287But worse than the delay were all those diabolical last minutes temptations stuck under the noses of children out of their skills with boredom.

No. It says that something happened that caused a delay. For some reason they had to wait. That was not good. But something else was worse. It was that they had to wait in a place where the children, who were already very bored, could see things very close to them which they wanted.

CJ

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Please give more context or a link to the source. You have many typographical errors. You must write clearly and accurately to get a reasoned answer!

Ideally, this is what your post should look like:

red park 287Hello everybody. Here is the situation in a book I am reading:
Scenario: A mother takes her children on a shopping trip.

 But what happened at the checkout set my nerves so much on edge that I almost dumped everything and left empty-handed. Someone was holding up the line because he wanted to buy some screws and no one knew the price. A hardware assistant was asked to come to the register. I took great pleasure imagining this man having to swallow his screws slowly, one by one. But worse than the delay were all those diabolical last-minute temptations stuck under the noses of children out of their skulls with boredom. What Machiavellian marketing genius dreamed that up? Candy, batteries, flashlights. Naturally, Adrien wanted something simply for the fun of having it, all the while offering me a brilliant explanation for why he absolutely needed it.

Please explain the underlined sentence to me.
Thank you!

Stuck under the noses of children

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