| 词汇 | smell up |
| 释义 | Phr V smell up smells, smelling, smelled British and Australian pt & pp also smelt smell out sth or smell sth out British & Australian informalsmell up sth or smell sth up American informal to fill a room with a smell, especially an unpleasant oneThat curry you had last night has smelt the whole place out. smell sth up • smell up sth AmE to fill a place with an unpleasant smell: Those cats of here make a mess on the floor and smell up the whole apartment.■ SIMILAR TO: stink out informal, smell out BrE smell upTo fill something or some place with a foul odor. A noun or pronoun can be used between "smell" and "up." Tom, your tuna sandwich is smelling up the office! Please go eat it somewhere else! Please don't smell the house up with your smoking—if you have to do it, go outside. smell something upto cause a bad or strong odor in a place or on something. Your cooking sure smelled this place up! The spoiled meat really smelled up the house! smell upAlso, stink up. Cause a bad odor, as in These onions smell up the whole house, or Your old sneakers are stinking up the closet; throw them out. [Mid-1900s] smell upv. To cause something to have a strong foul odor: The pungent soup I cooked smelled up the kitchen for days. You should wash the T-shirt, since you were the one who wore it to the gym and smelled it up. smell it upand smell the stuff tv. to sniff or snort powdered drugs, usually cocaine. (Drugs.) One of those guys shoots it; the other smells it up. The addict put the powder in a narrow row in order to “smell the stuff.” |
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