Cocking A Snook
Thumbing one's nose, also known as cocking a snook, is a sign of derision or contempt, made by putting the thumb on the nose, holding the palm open and perpendicular to the face, and wiggling the remaining fingers. It is used mostly by schoolchildren, often combined with blowing raspberries. It is also known as ''thumbing the nose'', ''Anne's Fan'' or '' Queen Anne's Fan''."The British also call it "Queen Anne's fan" because it became popular during her reign, of 1702-1714." ''Cocking a snook at a bender'', Chris Lloyd for The Northern Echo, Darlington6 Sep 2018 accessed 11 Oct 2021. The phrase "cocking a snook" can be used figuratively: the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' cites a 1938 usage "The Rome–Berlin axis...cocked the biggest snook yet at the League of Nations idea" by Eric Ambler in his '' Cause for Alarm''. See also * I've got your nose I've got your nose is a children's game in which a person pretends to pluck the nose from the face of a baby or toddler. Descriptio ...
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Cocking A Snook - Geograph
Cocking may refer to: * Cocking affair, an attempt in 1941 by Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge to exert direct control over the state's educational system * Cocking handle, a device on a firearm that results in the hammer or striker being cocked or moved to the ready position * Cocking, West Sussex, a village, parish, and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England * Cocking-cloth, a device used for catching pheasants * Edward Cocking (born 1931), British plant scientist * Robert Cocking (1776-1837), British watercolour artist * Samuel Cocking Samuel Cocking (19 March 1845 in Camberwell London – 26 February 1914 in Yokohama, Japan) was a merchant in Yokohama arriving in 1869, shortly after the “Opening of Japan”. Although he was born in London, he moved with his parents to Aus ...

Stalin Nose
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism. Born to a poor family in Gori in the Russian Empire (now Georgia), Stalin attended the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He edited the party's newspaper, ''Pravda'', and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rac ...
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