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
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
In 1950 this good temper was a little harder to explain, for beyond simply counting noses, the Government was setting out on a curbstone character reading of the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miami's method of counting noses ?was getting heavier every week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rick, seeing the manager busy counting noses to make sure all his employees were out, gasped, "Connel!"
From The Flaming Mountain by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
