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Also, count heads. Reckon up the number of those present. For example, The theater seemed only half-full, so the producer decided to count noses, or Our tour leader was always careful to count heads before the bus started off. This idiom was originally put as tell noses. [Mid-1600s]

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Perhaps the phrase "to count noses" originated in these lands.
The Land of the Black Mountain|Reginald Wyon
Hold your horses, Buster, and count noses; perhaps youll find that there are only five of us present.
Motor Boat Boys' River Chase|Louis Arundel
Some of the older ranchmen suggested to Packard and to Fisher that they count noses.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands|H. Hagedorn.
When he came to count noses he understood that there wasn't a show for him to be elected cox.
Fred Fenton on the Crew|Allen Chapman

We never thought to count noses until we reached the Cassidy place, and then we found they were missing.
The Little Colonel's House Party|Annie Fellows Johnston

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