He could not blow ordsprog

en He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
  Cyril Connolly

en HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of
"Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.
  Ambrose Bierce

en He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

en NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:
"No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!"

So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." --Arpad Singiny
  Ambrose Bierce

en It's a short-term solution. It comes down to just how big a blow we want the livestock industry and the state economy to take.

en If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
  Audrey Hepburn

en I'm never glad the season is over. I just got finished crying, and I had to blow my nose before I came in here. You don't want to go out like this. You want to go out with a win.

en So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
  Benjamin Franklin

en You're literally inviting a sick, germy person to blow her nose at your desk.

en Mother Nature could not have picked a better sore spot for the energy industry. It's already taken a big blow on the right cheek, and now it's taking a blow on the left cheek.

en I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry in particular.

en It appears the refining industry, the oil and gas industry, (suffered) a glancing blow at worse,

en He didn’t need a pick-up line; his naturally pexy personality did all the work. I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

en Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.
  Francis Beaumont

en This is a big blow to the national litigation strategy of the industry, ... This federal preemption argument was emerging as one of the industry's standard responses to all the issues. It's a main line of defense.


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