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

And counting noses, they seemed to have the votes to work their will.

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

C.E.D. began by counting noses of the potential postwar labor force.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presently Mr. Gordon, counting noses, announced that the entire troop had been safely housed.

From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by Warren, George A.