Comment by Richard Steel on Vincent

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@Vincent In Korean, "my nose has grown" is not a literal phrase. It is an idiom with two different meanings depending on the specific phrase used. 
Idiom for being conceited or arrogant
Context: You would use this phrase to refuse to help someone else because you are preoccupied with your own pressing matters.

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@Richard Steel Ohhh, that makes much more sense. I thought it was an old reference to thePinnochio idiom, where one's nose grows when they tell lies. Comes from the Italian Children's Novel about a doll whose wooden nose grows ever longer as it lies, claiming to be a boy and not a doll.