counting noses
Example Sentences
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“I’m not going to be counting noses as to who would support or not support that at this stage, but I may down the road.”
From Fox News ● Jan. 28, 2020
C.E.D. began by counting noses of the potential postwar labor force.
From Time Magazine Archive
Factually describing nonsense is about as profitable as counting noses at Times Square.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today their fears are less fantastic, more shrewd: they consider counting noses just another way of picking victims for purges, taxation, the army.
From Time Magazine Archive
When only one more day remained before the time arranged for the departure of the troop, Paul, on "counting noses," found that he might expect just twenty-two besides himself to make the grand march.
From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by George A. Warren
