"Cock a snoot" nghĩa là gì?
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"Cock a snoot" -> nghĩa là đánh giá/nhắc tới ai, cái gì với thái độ thiếu tôn trọng.
Ví dụ
Esports’ (thể thao điện tử) most devoted (tận tâm) fans may cock a snoot at the notion (quan điểm) of casual games entering their fold. You don’t have to stray far from a Google search to find vocal claims that casual games ‘aren’t real games’.
He also went slightly off-script (ngoài kịch bản) to endorse (xác nhận) comments made by review panel chair David Thodey in The Mandarin — its terms of reference are deliberately broad (rộng) so it can “go where the evidence leads it” — and to cheekily cock a snoot at some of Canberra’s eminent ex-APS commentators, who have questioned the idea, the terms of reference and the independence of the review secretariat (văn phòng).
200 years ago, a plan was announced to erect (dựng lên) a giant pyramid in the centre of London, for no purpose other than to cock a snoot at the French.
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