under someone's nose

English

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Prepositional phrase

under someone's nose

  1. (idiomatic) directly in front of one; clearly visible
    I searched for my glasses for twenty minutes, and finally found them right under my nose.
  2. (idiomatic) obvious or apparent
    If we had paid more attention, we would have found that answer was under our noses the whole time.

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