1894 Brewer’s / I / Itching of the Nose
indicates that you are going to see a stranger.
“We shall haʹ guests to-day
. . My nose itcheth so.”
Dekker: Honest Whore.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.