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