Smelling

  • 41come up smelling like a rose — {v. phr.} To escape from a difficult situation or misdeed unscathed or without punishment. * /A is predicted that Congressman Brown, in spite of the current investigation into his financial affairs, will come up smelling like a rose at the end./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 42come up smelling like a rose — {v. phr.} To escape from a difficult situation or misdeed unscathed or without punishment. * /A is predicted that Congressman Brown, in spite of the current investigation into his financial affairs, will come up smelling like a rose at the end./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 43ill-smelling — adjective having an unpleasant smell • Syn: ↑malodorous, ↑malodourous, ↑unpleasant smelling, ↑stinky • Ant: ↑fragrant (for: ↑malodorous) …

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  • 44unpleasant-smelling — adjective having an unpleasant smell • Syn: ↑malodorous, ↑malodourous, ↑ill smelling, ↑stinky • Ant: ↑fragrant (for: ↑malodorous) …

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  • 45come out/up smelling like a rose — (or come out/up smelling like/of roses) informal : to have success or good fortune in a situation in which you were likely to fail, be harmed, etc. The scandal forced several board members to resign, but the chairman came out smelling like a rose …

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  • 46come up smelling like a rose — (come up) smelling like a rose to end something positively or as a winner. Everyone thought he was guilty, but Smith still came up smelling like a rose. Hahn made a terrible play in the first half, but he was smelling like a rose by the finish …

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  • 47come out smelling of roses — come out/up smelling of roses British & Australian, American if you come out smelling of roses, people believe you are good and honest after a difficult situation which could have made you seem bad or dishonest. There was a major fraud… …

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  • 48come up smelling of roses — come out/up smelling of roses British & Australian, American if you come out smelling of roses, people believe you are good and honest after a difficult situation which could have made you seem bad or dishonest. There was a major fraud… …

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  • 49foul-smelling — adj. emitting an unpleasasnt odor. Syn: fetid, foul, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid, stinking. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 50come up smelling of roses — (UK) If someone comes up smelling of roses, they emerge from a situation with their reputation undamaged …

    The small dictionary of idiomes