rub someone's nose in

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To confront someone with (facts or evidence) that they find unpleasant in order to make them suffer.
    — I want him to rub his nose in the issue. I want a local judgement about a local or specific event, supposed to have happened in a particular region of time and space.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, nose, in.

词形变化

rubs someone's nose in present,singular,third-person rubbing someone's nose in participle,present rubbed someone's nose in participle,past rubbed someone's nose in past

词源

From the technique of rubbing a pet's nose in the feces or urine when it makes a mess where it should not.
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