"We are going to powder our collective noses."

They stood in the door of the parlor, staring down their collective noses at her.

"It's a story of the art world looking down its collective nose at this woman with an eighth-grade education."

"We're looking for him everywhere, and the slug's right under our collective nose."

If we can capture and hold an active minority, we can lead the majority around by its collective nose.

"And if the market holds its collective nose?"

By offering substantially less than the Catholic hospitals had, he said, the League was "thumbing its collective noses at the workers."

Our usual reaction to puns of this order was to hold our collective nose and flee screaming into the night.

Upon their bargaining ability, their collective nose for trade, depended the next flight of the Queen.

He would tweak their collective noses at the slightest provocation.