What's the meaning of はなに引っ掛ける?


I came across the following expression:

> あなたにはなにも引っ掛けてもらえなかった

I traced it back
[here](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1432561279),
and I loosely understand that this means that あなた (the character who is being
spoken to) has been ignoring the character who is speaking.

I'm having trouble parsing how 引っ掛ける is used in this case, however. Why is the
particle に(も) used instead of は or が? What does snot (if I understood that bit
correctly in the page I linked to) have to do with ignoring somebody?




> 「あなたにはな **にも** 引{ひ}っ掛{か}けてもらえなかった。」

Even though the vast majority of Japanese-speakers would understand this
sentence with no problems (as I myself did some days ago), I am going to say
today that it contains a mistake - a grammar one.

As
[日本国語大辞典](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%BC%BB%E3%82%82%E5%BC%95%E3%81%A3%E6%8E%9B%E3%81%91%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-2075017#E7.B2.BE.E9.81.B8.E7.89.88.20.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.9B.BD.E8.AA.9E.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E5.85.B8)
says:

「鼻{はな} **も** 引っ掛けない」 is an idiomatic expression meaning
「相手{あいて}にしない」、「無視{むし}する」, etc. That is " ** _to ignore (completely)_** " in
English.

Note that 「鼻」 in this expression refers to " ** _nazal discharge_** " and
**_not_** "nose".

「も」 here is for emphasis, so it can naturally be replaced by 「さえも」. ← I will
come back to this as it is rather important.

「引っ掛ける」 is only a "rough" version of 「掛ける」, which means " ** _to spray_** ", "
** _to splash_** ", etc. in this context.

Thus, the super-literal meanng of the sentence in question is:

> "I was not even given the pleasure of getting your nazal discharge sprayed
> on me."

To make that simpler and less masochistic, the more ordinary translation would
be " ** _You ignored me completely!_** " or " ** _I was ignored completely by
you!_** " as I stated above.

Now, what is the mistake in the sentence in question, then? I would say it is
the use of 「に」 in 「はなにも」. As I said, the 「も」 alone functions as an emphasizer
here. The nazal discharge itself is not receiving an action, so there should
**not** be that 「に」 there.

Finally, I must also add that, in using a 「に」, another idiomatic expression
that contains 「鼻」 might have crossed the speaker's mind. That expression is:

「鼻 **に** かける」

It means "to brag about", "to boast", etc. and it actually uses a 「に」.

