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follow one's nose

Idioms  

  1. Go straight ahead, as in To get to the restaurant, just follow your nose down Baker Avenue. [Late 1600s]

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One can follow one's nose on a message here, and be sure it won't be bit off by the way.

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How would it be, do you think, if, just for a change, one could follow one's nose to Germany and bury it in snow or hoarfrost?

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To follow one's nose; to go strait forward.

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