"Cock a snook at" nghĩa là gì?

“Cock a snook at” có snook là cố tình chọc tức -> cụm từ này nghĩa là vẫy mũi, tỏ ý khinh.

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If it were possible for music to be sarcastic (mỉa mai, châm biếm), Fearn’s tinny sounds would be just that. His beats cock a snook at pretension, while communicating urgency (thúc giục, nêu ra). Kazoos, weird noises and surprising little countermelodies crop up tonight where you least expect them, as on one of tonight’s newer songs, I Don’t Rate You.

The words ‘starring Abhay Deol’ were soon seen as an ISI mark for those looking for more than what mainstream Hindi films were offering at the time. Such was the power he wielded that his presence in films like Manorama and Dev D even helped green light them. Just when he was getting pigeonholed, he joined the cast of Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobora (2011) for a cinematic romp across Spain, followed by Banerjee’s Shanghai (2012), and continued to cock a snook at the Bollywood establishment who couldn’t figure out how to peg the youngest Deol in the business (Dharmendra is his uncle, and Sunny and Bobby his cousins).

Novichok — Russian for “newbie” or “rookie” — is an oddly disarming (làm nguôi giận) nickname for a substance that can cause an agonising (đau đớn, khổ sở) death even in tiny quantities. Use of the banned nerve agent against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018 — which led to the death of a UK citizen, Dawn Sturgess — caused international outrage (bất bình, xúc phạm). Its deployment now against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is both abhorrent (mâu thuẫn, căm ghét) and seems designed to cock a snook at the outside world. It is powerful evidence of how far Vladimir Putin’s Russia is from being a “normal” country.

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