counting noses
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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
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
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
Factually describing nonsense is about as profitable as counting noses at Times Square.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We are seven!” exclaimed Nyoda, counting noses at the table.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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