- stink to high heaven
- stink to high heaven & smell to high heavenFig. to smell very bad. •
What happened? This place stinks to high heaven.
•This meat smells to high heaven. Throw it away!
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
stink to high heaven
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stink to high heaven — If something has a very strong unpleasant smell, it stinks to high heaven. Take off those socks they stink to high heaven! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
stink to high heaven — smell/stink to high heaven to smell very bad. That chicken farm stinks to high heaven … New idioms dictionary
stink to high heaven — smell/stink/to high heaven informal phrase to smell extremely bad Thesaurus: to produce a smellsynonym to shine, glow or give off lightsynonym … Useful english dictionary
stink (or smell) to high heaven — informal smell very bad. → the heave ho … English new terms dictionary
smell to high heaven — smell/stink to high heaven to smell very bad. That chicken farm stinks to high heaven … New idioms dictionary
smell to high heaven — smell/stink/to high heaven informal phrase to smell extremely bad Thesaurus: to produce a smellsynonym to shine, glow or give off lightsynonym … Useful english dictionary
stink — [n] bad smell fetor, foulness, foul odor, malodor, noisomeness, offensive smell, stench; concepts 599,600 Ant. perfume, sweetness stink [v1] smell badly be offensive, be rotten, funk*, have an odor, offend, reek*, smell up, stink to high heaven*; … New thesaurus
stink — O.E. stincan emit a smell of any kind (class III strong verb; past tense stonc), from W.Gmc. *stenkwanan (Cf. O.S. stincan, O.H.G. stinkan, Du. stinken), from the root of STENCH (Cf. stench). O.E. swote stincan to smell sweet, but offensive sense … Etymology dictionary
high — 1 /haI/ adjective MEASUREMENT/DISTANCE 1 FROM BOTTOM TO TOP something that is high measures a long distance from its bottom to its top: the highest mountain in Japan | a castle surrounded by high walls | 100 feet/30 metres etc high: a building 20 … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
heaven — /ˈhɛvən / (say hevuhn) noun 1. (also upper case) (in many religions and mythologies) a place or state of existence where people (often those who have lived righteously or those chosen by a god or gods) live on after death in happiness. In the… …
stink — 1 past tense stank, past participle stunk verb (I) 1 to have a strong and very unpleasant smell: That paint stinks! (+ of): The place stank of old fish. | it stinks: It stinks of smoke in here. | stink to high heaven (=stink very much) 2 it… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
