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Follow your nose, go straight on. He followed his nose—he went on and on without any discretion or thought of consequences.

He who follows truth too closely will have dirt kicked in his face. Be not too strict to pry into abuse, for “odium veritas parit,” “Summum jus suprema est injuria.”

 

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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.

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Fog-eater
Fogie or Fogey
Fo-hi or Foë
Foil
Folio
Folk
Folk
Folk-lore
Folk-mote [a folk meeting]
Follets
Follow
Follower
Folly
Fond
Fons et Origo (Latin)
Font
Fontarabia
Food
Food for Powder
Foods and Wines
Fool