| 单词 | to wake up and smell the coffee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wake up and smell the coffee (also decaf, etc.) slang (originally U.S.). to wake up and smell the coffee (also decaf, etc.): to be realistic or aware; to abandon a naive or foolish notion. Frequently in imperative.Popularized by the U.S. syndicated advice columnist ‘Ann Landers’ (1918–2002, b. Esther Pauline Friedman). ΚΠ 1943 Chicago Tribune 18 Jan. 17/2 A few years back, when a wife told her husband to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’, it usually was said in utter derision. Now, when there is coffee to smell, she shouts it to him in supreme delight. 1955 ‘A. Landers’ in Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 21 Dec. 23/2 Wake up and smell the coffee. Do you want a wife who smokes, drinks, likes taverns and slaps you around? 1981 N.Y. Times 15 Nov. ii. 17/4 Joffrey and Arpino are theatrical as well as dance people... I'd been wrapped on up on line and whether your arabesque was high enough for so many years. They made me wake up and smell the coffee. 1995 D. Marc Bonfire of Humanities 118 Wake up and smell the decaf, folks. 2001 Nation 2 July 21/1 State and local organizing is where the future is for our movement—it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. < as lemmas |
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