nose of wax

Someone or something that can be easily influenced or changed. You need to set some boundaries if you want them to stop treating you like a nose of wax! He is not just a nose of wax for you to bend to your whims.

See also: nose, of, wax

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

unsusceptible to (something)
tough love
be a slave of (something)
be a slave to (something)
be a slave to/of something
slave
slave to
swab
swab (something) out of (something)
swab out of

References in periodicals archive

Only by evaluating scope in a single, integrated fashion can courts avoid the nose of wax problem that has grown endemic in IP law.

The result of this separation is that parties treat IP rights "like a nose of wax which may be turned and twisted in any direction." (2) When infringement is at issue, IP owners tout the breadth of their rights, while accused infringers seek to cabin them within narrow bounds.

(7) But even these efforts to patch the system are doomed to fail at determining the proper scope of an IP right for the simple reason that they are themselves either validity or infringement doctrines and are therefore subject to the same nose of wax problem as different decisionmakers tackle different pieces of the issue at different times.

Only by evaluating scope in a single, integrated proceeding can courts avoid the nose of wax problem that has grown endemic in IP law.

Scope

"[A]s John Locke puts it, the outcome of biblical interpretation threatens to be `that the scripture serves but, like a nose of wax, to be turned and bent, just as may fit the contrary orthodoxies of different societies.

Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks

Wolterstorff is worried that his approach may turn Scripture into (to use Locke's phrase) `a nose of wax'.

Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks

词组	nose of wax
释义	nose of wax nose of wax Someone or something that can be easily influenced or changed. You need to set some boundaries if you want them to stop treating you like a nose of wax! He is not just a nose of wax for you to bend to your whims. See also: nose, of, wax Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: unsusceptible to (something) tough love be a slave of (something) be a slave to (something) be a slave to/of something slave slave to swab swab (something) out of (something) swab out of References in periodicals archive Only by evaluating scope in a single, integrated fashion can courts avoid the nose of wax problem that has grown endemic in IP law. The result of this separation is that parties treat IP rights "like a nose of wax which may be turned and twisted in any direction." (2) When infringement is at issue, IP owners tout the breadth of their rights, while accused infringers seek to cabin them within narrow bounds. (7) But even these efforts to patch the system are doomed to fail at determining the proper scope of an IP right for the simple reason that they are themselves either validity or infringement doctrines and are therefore subject to the same nose of wax problem as different decisionmakers tackle different pieces of the issue at different times. Only by evaluating scope in a single, integrated proceeding can courts avoid the nose of wax problem that has grown endemic in IP law. Scope "[A]s John Locke puts it, the outcome of biblical interpretation threatens to be `that the scripture serves but, like a nose of wax, to be turned and bent, just as may fit the contrary orthodoxies of different societies. Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks Wolterstorff is worried that his approach may turn Scripture into (to use Locke's phrase) `a nose of wax'. Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks
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