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2021-08-06 04:08
To count noses phrase
To count the number of people in a group to determine who is present
My teacher always counts noses at the beginning and the end of the lesson to make sure that no one plays truant.
Who votes for Peter to be class monitor raises hands higher so that I can count noses.
When it comes to determining the number of people, counting noses is more accurate than answering the roll call.
A group of bad or sinful people
Used to indicate a shortening of "survivor"
The verb "count" must be conjugated according to its tense.
It's possible that the phrase comes from horse traders who count their stock by the nose (as opposed to cattle merchants who count by the "head"). It has, however, been around for a long time, dating back to the seventeenth century, when it was sometimes referred to as "to tell noses."
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