| 单词 | not to smell right |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to smell right c. figurative. Also in not to smell right, to have an air of being not quite in order. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled [verb (intransitive)] > be shady or fishy smell1939 not to smell right1950 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 426 Þere smit no þinge so smerte, ne smelleth so soure, As shame. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1022 Me thinketh this smelleth like a lye. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 36 O my offence is ranck, it smels to heauen. View more context for this quotation 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 36 The hope of torturing him smells like a heap Of corpses, to a death-bird after battle. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. iii. 157 That corrupt and tyrannical dynasty whose offences smelt to heaven.] 1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife x. 154 It doesn't sound like Fascism. It doesn't smell like Fascism. 1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise xvii. 219 It's..the whole set~up... It doesn't smell right. 1969 Sunday Times 21 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 11/1 Jock could not have been nicer... As a matter of fact he has been so nice that it smells bad. 1974 J. Thomson Long Revenge iii. 33 Finch was inclined towards accepting the case... And yet..he hesitated... It still did not smell right to him. < as lemmas |
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