<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As a speaker of U.S. English, I have heard the phrase "put [one's] nose out of joint" with the meaning of annoying someone or creating resentment, e.g.: </div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What's wrong with Jill? What put her nose out of joint?" </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"Don't put your nose out of joint. I didn't mean anything by what I said."</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+nose+out+of+joint">http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+nose+out+of+joint</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">However, I haven't heard it with "of joint" implied rather than expressed....</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"Don't get your knickers in a twist" seems slightly different, in that it seems to be used to tell someone else to calm down, they're overreacting. etc. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Greg</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><div><p style="text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__GoBack"></a></span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002e62">Greg
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:28 PM, allison nixon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elsakoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">elsakoo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">"<span style="font-size:12.8px">It is a peculiar English phrase, with various interwoven meanings, but primarily to challenge a rethink, where things have got skewed/distorted/personal/heat</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>ed - impaired vision because the nose is so far out of position</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I very much doubt Chris was offering any form of bodily harm to anyone</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The nearer to the East End of London the individual is from them more "colourful" the variation on the theme, involving entanglement of other bodily parts and/or underwear :)"</span><br><br></span>Thanks, I had never heard of such a meaning. I understand now, and no offense taken.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Rob Golding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.golding@astutium.com" target="_blank">rob.golding@astutium.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For the non native English (nation rather than language) members of the WG<span><br>
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On 2017-04-28 01:46, allison nixon wrote:<br>
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so threats to the nose are enormously inappropriate and I<br>
as well as the list need to know if you intend to carry out those<br>
threats.<br>
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It is a peculiar English phrase, with various interwoven meanings, but primarily to challenge a rethink, where things have got skewed/distorted/personal/heat<wbr>ed - impaired vision because the nose is so far out of position<br>
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I very much doubt Chris was offering any form of bodily harm to anyone<br>
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The nearer to the East End of London the individual is from them more "colourful" the variation on the theme, involving entanglement of other bodily parts and/or underwear :)<span><br>
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If this article was written in the EU in the future,<br>
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Doesn't need to be in the future, journalists already have to be very careful about what "data" they share (in terms of names/addresses/etc) - doxing gets people into trouble now<br>
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