nose
As a nose a man is called, the smells sensual highly experienced whose olfactory perception is particularly strong or special communication received through the sense of smell problems to be solved, such as a perfumer in the composition of perfumes . Pars pro toto , the nose identified with the organ of smell is also called a “nose”.
In a figurative sense is found - on the concept of good nose - the ability to sense favorable opportunities to track relationships intuitive and use a situation appropriate or opportune, set in a relationship of similarity to smell, "with this analogy as in the phrase for it have a nose ”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nose, m.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 14 : R - skewness - (VIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893, Sp. 913 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ A nose. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 17 : Speaker - standing clock - (X, 2nd section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1919, Sp. 252 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).