英语词汇count noses的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	count noses
词源	count noses. This expression meaning to count the number of people in an audience may come from the old practice of horse dealers counting horses by the nose, or may go back to the Danes, who invaded Ireland in the ninth century and took a census by counting noses.
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