Follow Your Nose

No Toucan Sam didn't orginally say it, but he did help to make it a house hold saying.

Meaning: To make decisions by thinking of how you feel about someone or something instead of finding out information about them, to go straight ahead, the direction that one's nose is pointing, to move in the direction of something you smell.

Origin: First seen in print 1774 in “FOUR YEARS ON THE FIRING LINE", By Col. James Cooper Nisbet.

The saying "Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in a while", gets it roots from follow your nose.

Farm Sayings Friday is weekly feature of Yield Starts Here. You might think your grandparents made it up, but that old saying likely goes back many years. In this feature we will figure out who said it first and what it really means! Do you have a well used saying in your family, send to us and we'll feature it in a future blog.

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