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| Russian | English |
| утереть нос | show a middle finger (Himera) |
| утереть нос | have the better of (someone – кому-либо Bobrovska) |
| утереть нос | score points off (someone); to deliberately make yourself appear superior to someone else by making clever remarks SirReal) |
| утереть нос | put someone to shame (In this 1969 film, British gangsters are trying hard to put the Italian organized crime to shame. ART Vancouver) |
| утереть кому-либо нос | have somebody licked (не something, a somebody; ошибка Мультитрана grafleonov) |
| утереть нос | wipe someone's eye (кому-либо) |
| утереть нос | rub it in someone's face (finita) |