Dic: nose (special ability for finding or recognizing sth)

• He had a nose for trouble and a brilliant tactical mind. 
• As a journalist, she has always had a nose for a good story.

PHRASE : V inflects, PHR n | If you say that someone has a nose for something, you mean that they have a natural ability to find it or recognize it.

... Cobuild, OALD

Cf.

The ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell: has a nose for gossip.

Informal. The nose considered as a symbol of prying{캐묻다, 엿보다}: Keep your nose out of my business.

.... The American Heritage