Übersetzung für "Thumb nose" in Deutsch

All you can do is thumb your nose at it.

Meanwhile, a kingpin of terrorism gets to walk right into our back yard and thumb his nose at us, and I don't like it.

I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it.

The Führer is a man of peace to the depth of his soul but he won't allow a small second-rate country to thumb its nose at the 1000-year German Reich.

Few can now strut the national stage, or thumb their nose at the Kremlin, as they did during the Yeltsin era, but their powers are real and reigning them in won’t be easy.

Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.

I am playing with it, trying to thumb my nose at it, to do mischief with it, in the style of joke articles, but as a living person even I, of course, am also condemned to die.

Therefore, someone in the public eye could get away with maneuvers and thumb their nose, so to speak, at MJ12, knowing they were a public figure and therefore could not be taken out.

It is a way to thumb his nose to those who are trying to crush him, even though paradoxically its individual narcissistic nature is that we only speak about him.

I proposed that Zimmermann might become my campaign manager, both to show personal support for him and thumb my nose at the prosecutors and court that had convicted him.

A resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East passed at the 1995 NPT review conference remains a dead letter and Washington will once again thumb its nose at the Non-Aligned Movement—that is, the majority of countries represented at the latest meeting.

Then when we march past we'll thumb our noses at them.

He's always thumbing his nose at us.

Perhaps we, as MEPs, must now just face the fact that years of European agricultural policy have, in fact, almost destroyed the high-quality agriculture that can invariably almost be described as small-scale, and have led to the omnipotence of industrial European agriculture and to the omnipotence of a number of agro-industrial groups which are only out to make a profit and which thumb their noses at public health and quality standards.

Otherwise the hard fact is that the Chinese are thumbing their noses at us.

Instead, I expect we shall see here an arrogant and overweening Commission doing what it does best, thumbing its nose at the public whilst the guilty ones go unpunished.

Remember how the Argentines were able to thumb their noses at the pro-market “Washington Consensus” in favor of an interventionist “Buenos Aires consensus”?

The French government, unwilling to cut its swollen public sector, is now thumbing its nose at the Stability Pact and its enforcers in the European Commission, saying that it has "different priorities" than those required by the pact.

You leave it up, and you're just waving a red flag in front of the FBI and thumbing your nose at all the people who believed in you.