From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoke your nose into somethingpoke your nose into somethinginformal to take an interest or get involved in someone else’s private affairs, in a way that annoys them I’m sick of your mother poking her nose into our marriage. → pokeExamples from the Corpuspoke your nose into something• Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
Idiom[s]: poke one's nose in[to something] AND stick one's nose in[to something]
Theme: MEDDLE
to interfere with something; to be nosy about something.• I wish you'd stop poking your nose into my business.• She was too upset for me to stick my nose in and ask what was wrong.
To involve or insert oneself in an intrusive or nosy manner into something that is not one's business or responsibility. I wish our neighbors would quit poking their noses in and just leave us alone! Don't poke your nose into your brother's affairs—he can manage well enough on his own.See also: nose, pokePry into or meddle in another's affairs, as in I told her to stop poking her nose into our business. This usage replaced the earlier thrust one's nose into in the mid-1800s. See also: nose, pokeTo interfere, to meddle. This term began as thrust one’s nose into someone’s affairs, back in the sixteenth century. The analogy presumably is to a dog or other animal nosing about. Samuel Johnson used it in his Dictionary under “Nose” [1755]: “To thrust one’s Nose into the affairs of others, to be meddling with other people’s matters.” In America at some point poke was substituted.See also: nose, poke, to Nghĩa là gì: go away with something go away with something
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