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
Factually describing nonsense is about as profitable as counting noses at Times Square.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Today their fears are less fantastic, more shrewd: they consider counting noses just another way of picking victims for purges, taxation, the army.
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C.E.D. began by counting noses of the potential postwar labor force.
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You think this a question of counting noses.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John