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smell to high heaven

verb as in smell

Strongest match

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“Phew! Dear, dear, don’t you chaps ever take a bath? Listen here, you dreadful creature. D’you realize that you smell to high heaven? Er, by the way, did your parents ever call you Pongo, or did they smell as bad as you?”

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The Clinton Foundation's dealings, on the other hand, smell to high heaven.

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Magistrate Peter Abeles fined Harry Marrin $250, sent him to jail for five days � because "your transactions in the onion black market smell to high heaven."

By comparison with what we know could be done, we smell to high heaven.

Despite their general cleanliness, they often look greasy and smell to high heaven because of their habit of anointing hair and skin with fats and oils, especially fish-oil.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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