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tell noses

Today it means: Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”). Full definition →

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From tell (“to count, reckon, or enumerate”) + noses.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.