Definition of Lead by the nose

1. Verb. Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end. "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lead By The Nose

lead-acid accumulator
lead-acid battery
lead-footed
lead-free
lead-in
lead-off
lead-out
lead-outs
lead-pipe cinch
lead-pipe rigidity
lead acetate
lead anaemia
lead arsenate
lead astray
lead bank
lead by the nose (current term)
lead carbonate
lead character
lead chromate
lead colic
lead dog
lead down a garden path
lead encephalitis
lead encephalopathy
lead fiddle
lead gout
lead guitar
lead guitars
lead hopping

Literary usage of Lead by the nose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... то FOLLOW ONE'S NOSE = to go straight forward ; то lead by the nose=to govern ; то PAY THROUGH THE NOSE = to pay extravagantly ; то PUT ONE'S NOSE INTO ..."

2. Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting (1825)
"To thrust one's nose into other men's affairs— to put the nose out of joint—to count noses—to lead by the nose—to pay through the nose—to follow one's ..."

3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"... To lead by the nose, to drag bv force, as j bear by his ring; to lead blindly ; To thrust one'» nose into the affairs of another, to be a busy body ..."

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