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you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire is the alternative form of you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire.

Meaning of you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

Proverb

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

  1. (humorous) A woman's facial attractiveness is irrelevant when considering her as a sexual partner.

Questions about you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

What is you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire the alternative form of?
You don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire is the alternative form of you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire.

Words near you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire in the dictionary

  1. you don't get something for nothing
  2. you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
  3. you don't know what you're talking about
  4. you don't know what you've got till it's gone
  5. you don't know where it's been
  6. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
  7. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
  8. you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
  9. you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
  10. you don't say
  11. you don't want to know

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire (page history and authors); you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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