Meaning of nose of wax | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is pliant and easily influenced.

obsolete

Examples

“[…] but vows with you being like / To your religion, a nose of wax / To be turn'd every way […]”

“It is contended indeed by some reasoners, that we must have listened to the Ottoman complaint, on the broad principle of the law of nations. This sounds well, but in this, as in many other cases, the aforesaid law of nations is a nose of wax, and twistable into any form.”

CEFR level