知っておきたい イディオム!(その22)

今回のイディオムのテーマも「nose」です。

Hanako: Today, my English teacher asked me to count noses in class.

Kate:   And what did you do?

Hanako: I didn’t know exactly what the teacher meant, so I actually counted the number of noses.

Kate:      Well, you did the right thing. The number of noses is the number of your classmates.

 

count noses:  (出席者・賛成者などの)人数[頭数]を数える

count headsとも言う

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