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
C.E.D. began by counting noses of the potential postwar labor force.
From Time Magazine Archive
A surprise enrollment surge triggers a campus housing crunch After counting noses for fall registration, a fair number of colleges are just beginning to come out of shock.
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
Possibly the reason the House of Commons does not express the will of the people is, that its members are merely selected in a loose, vague way and by merely counting noses.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee
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