Usually means: Control someone completely and unquestioningly.
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  1. lead by the nose: Collins English Dictionary
  2. lead by the nose: Vocabulary.com
  3. lead by the nose: Wiktionary
  4. lead by the nose: Dictionary.com
  5. lead by the nose: Rhymezone
  6. lead by the nose: FreeDictionary.org
  7. lead by the nose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. lead by the nose: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lead by the nose: Legal dictionary
  2. lead by the nose: Financial dictionary

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  1. lead by the nose: Medical dictionary

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  1. lead by the nose: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (lead by the nose)

verb:  (idiomatic, figurative) To cause to follow blindly.
verb:  (idiomatic, figurative) To lead by example and painstaking explanation, as one might do for remedial teaching.

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