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smoke like a chimney, to smoke like a chimneyTo smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes, etc., continuously and in large amounts. My grandma smoked like a chimney and lived to be 94 years old, so I can never take people's warnings about cigarettes too seriously. Every Sunday, my father would plonk himself in his favorite armchair with the newspaper, smoking like a chimney.See also: chimney, like, smokesmoke like a chimneyto smoke a great deal of tobacco or other smokable substances. My uncle smoked like a chimney when he was living. somebody who smokes like a chimney in a restaurant ought to be thrown out.See also: chimney, like, smokesmoke like a chimney smoke tobacco incessantly.See also: chimney, like, smokeˌsmoke like a ˈchimney (informal) smoke a lot of cigarettes: You think I smoke a lot? You should meet Joe — he smokes like a chimney.See also: chimney, like, smokesmoke like a chimney in. to smoke a great deal of tobacco or other smokable substances. Somebody who smokes like a chimney in a restaurant ought to be thrown out. See also: chimney, like, smokesmoke like a chimney, toTo smoke tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, and so on) to excess. Generally stated as a criticism of the smoker, this term, which likens the habit to smoke pouring out of a chimney, has become a cliché owing to increasing disapproval of the tobacco habit. C. Parker used it in The Body on the Beach (1989), “‘I thought she’d given it up.’—‘What, Mary? She smokes like a chimney.’” See also: like, smoke |