turnip your nose at her

[IQU3838]

Hi,

What does "turnip one's nose at someone"mean?

Here is the context:

A: My mother-in-law insists on cooking roast beef, even though she knows that I am a lifelong vegetarian.

B: You should turnip your nose at her and walk away.

Thanks a lot for your kind help.

 

[corum]

to turn up one's nose at = to regard with contempt

 

[Rover_KE]

It's a joke - a play on words - a pun.

You're a vegetarian; a turnip's a vegetable.

(All right. . .it's not a very good joke.)

Rover

 

[Ouisch]

Hi,

What does "turnip one's nose at someone"mean?

Here is the context:

A: My mother-in-law insists on cooking roast beef, even though she knows that I am a lifelong vegetarian.

B: You should turnip your nose at her and walk away.

Thanks a lot for your kind help.

As others have pointed out, it's a pun...in this case, a vegetable-related pun based on the fact that the vegetable "turnip" sounds a lot like "turn up". If someone "turns up their nose" at something, it means that they find that something objectionable or unpleasant or unacceptable.

Personally, I think that puns are the lowest form of humor. Particularly vegetable puns. I wish I could squash them all. But they are hard to beet. You're probably thinking "give peas a chance" and "lettuce all just try to get along," but I couldn't carrot less. ;-)

 

[5jj]

Haven't we bean here before?

 

[Munch]

Haven't we bean here before?

You deserve a beeting for that.

 

[Tdol]

With a carrot and a stick

 

[bhaisahab]

Q. "What do you call two rows of brassicas in the vegetable garden?" A. "A dual cabbage way". ;-)

 

[5jj]

Q. What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

A. Pumpkin pi.