cock a snook

It looked like I was deliberately cocking a snook at their good intentions.

With a grin, on impulse, he cocked a snook at the stone image.

Tom Keating spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world.

The nations of Earth, the whole fat Federation, they need somebody in a position to cock a snook at them.

All countries are equal here and Turkey cannot therefore cock a snook at democracy in this insulting manner.

It is damaging to mutual trust among Member States when individual countries cock a snook at the common policy.

A rare and brave retailer that cocks a snook at those who think the only way to sell something is to discount it.

Banner, if only to cock a snook at handwringing hypocrisy.

Perhaps, as some here suggested, tongue-in-cheek, support for America was just a way of cocking a snook at the French.

To cock a snook at the ruling classes in winter 1736, all you had to do was buy a dram."

He said the move was an instance of South Africa's "cocking a snook at the world" -thumbing its nose.

The prince smiled as he spoke her true name - as if tempting fate, cocking a snook at danger.

But was she just cocking a snook at the past, trying to get away with murder like Jack Purvis?

I called Mr. Evans to get the meaning of the phrase cock a snook .

The very cavalier nature of such waste seems to cock a snook at the Presbyterianism that controls a large section of the community.

And cock a snook at Thermus.

Let us be clear today if it is willing to do so, or if it is simply going to cock a snook at Parliament's requests.

Give yerselves a cheer, and cock a snook at the devil," he roared so that even those up on the yards could hear him.

Such use of slang in literature is urban, knowing and modern, cocking a snook at some readers, while winking at others.

I might cock a snook at him behind his back but I wouldn't dash into his path making the victory sign.'

He is not cocking a snook at the authorities, he is putting his passengers at risk and that is a very serious matter.

They give people up for dead and then the people laugh and cock a snook at them and live for another fifty years."

Europe's citizens must be made aware of the fact that Europe cocks a snook at them on a daily basis, and this situation must be rectified.

His glorification of the subtle and simple cocks a snook at the overblown excesses that have given Paris couture the kiss of death.

Cocking a snook is an old British taunting gesture in which the thumb of one hand is on the nose and the extended fingers are wiggled.