A prize of 50 is not to be sneezed at. 50英镑的奖金可不是个小数.
sneeze
[ noun ]
a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
<noun.state> [ verb ]
exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose
<verb.body> Pepper makes me sneeze
Sneeze \Sneeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneezed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sneezing}.] [OE. snesen; of uncertain origin; cf. D. snuse to sniff, E. neese, and AS. fne['o]san.] To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.
{Not to be sneezed at}, not to be despised or contemned; not to be treated lightly. [Colloq.] ``He had to do with old women who were not to be sneezed at.'' --Prof. Wilson.
Sneeze \Sneeze\, n. A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.
They blame the news media. "It appears a Rottweiler has only to sneeze and it is in the headlines," Marilyn Hayward of the British Rottweiler Association was quoted as telling The Sunday Times.
"I heard him sneeze once," he added. "I practiced his sneeze." Arthur Marx said Ferrante cares about his father's life and doesn't merely imitate the pat mannerisms _ the cigar-chomping, the bow-legged walk, the shifty eyebrows, the one-liners.
"I heard him sneeze once," he added. "I practiced his sneeze." Arthur Marx said Ferrante cares about his father's life and doesn't merely imitate the pat mannerisms _ the cigar-chomping, the bow-legged walk, the shifty eyebrows, the one-liners.
"The company is making all kinds of threats here that if flight attendants look sideways and sneeze, they can be terminated," a union spokesman said.
The AIDS virus is passed during sex or through bodily fluids, but tuberculosis is transmitted through the air when infected people cough or sneeze.
"That's certainly not anything to sneeze at," Foster said.