follow one's nose
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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.
From Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts by George Colman
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?
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
To follow one's nose; to go strait forward.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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