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Follow Your Nose

In straight direction, to go ahead straight

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  • It is the early 1400s saying or may be even earlier than that. Your nose lies quite in the centre of your face, which points you to go straight ahead. Since nose is a sense organ, but in this saying it has nothing to do with smell rather it points towards direction. However, when you asked a way from someone, you are always told to “follow your nose, because no matter, how many turns, lefts or rights you take you always follow your nose.
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Since James was a new comer in the class, when he asked the way to a library, his classmate guided him just to follow his nose.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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