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Expression: "To smell good" etc



 
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #1 (permalink) Wed Jan 31, 2007 13:21 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Hi

If someone is wearing a nice perfume, can we say

"Hey, you smell good, John."

or

2-You smell foul.
3-You smell ugly. etc


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Expression: "To smell good" etc #2 (permalink) Wed Jan 31, 2007 13:53 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

You can smell good. I think the opposite in a polite way is to say; You don't smell very nice, today. Smell foul, nasty is usually things rather than people, at least when they're alive! Smell ugly is more figurative, which suggests something has made you suspicious and things look very bad.

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Expression: "To smell good" etc #3 (permalink) Wed Jan 31, 2007 14:13 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

My sister's dog got "skunked" two weeks ago. (Really!) He still smells awful. :lol:
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #4 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 0:39 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Namesake o' Mine:

If you really want to be extreme when someone doesn't smell good, say this:

"You smell like [slang word for feces -- you know what it is]!"

hehe

Conversely, if someone smells really nice, say this:

"Your aroma is like a cornucopia of all the best potpourri scents."

(there's that 'posting after 5pm' thing again.)

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Expression: "To smell good" etc #5 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 0:46 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Amy

I've heard that a decent way to get rid of the skunky odor is to bathe the beast in tomato juice.
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #6 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:05 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Hi Tom

Two tomato-juicings later, we now firmly believe that to be a myth. :lol:
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #7 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 15:32 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

well crud.

okay, try giving the dog a Mentos bath.

Crush up some Mentos, get it to dissolve in the water... then bathe the dog in this concoction.

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Expression: "To smell good" etc #8 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 23:46 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

prezbucky wrote:
"Your aroma is like a cornucopia of all the best potpourri scents."

Did you know that 'potpourri' literally means 'rotten pot'? :)

prezbucky wrote:
(there's that 'posting after 5pm' thing again.)

:)


Not a bad syndrome altogether, I'd say.
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #9 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 23:50 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Conchita wrote:
[Did you know that 'potpourri' literally means 'rotten pot'? :)

Potpourri will never smell quite the same again now that I know that. :lol:
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #10 (permalink) Thu Feb 01, 2007 23:59 pm   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Conchita, you're way too kind. I have two minutes to write this post.

(hurry up, Tom)

LOL at both of you... "rotten pot" and Amy's reply.
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #11 (permalink) Fri Feb 02, 2007 0:22 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Thanks for the creative suggestion, Tom. :D

I've now received quite a number of suggestions. One suggestion involved bleach. Another called for vinegar. Yet another involved mixing a number of "common household ingredients" together (but they also mentioned the necessity to be very careful since the mixture could ignite...). Somebody else suggested using mouthwash on the dog. :lol: Of course the local pet store has a number of products -- but even they don't eliminate the stink completely. :shock:

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Expression: "To smell good" etc #12 (permalink) Fri Feb 02, 2007 0:27 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Try peroxide.

Just make sure you cover its eyes with swimming goggles or something...
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Expression: "To smell good" etc #13 (permalink) Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:16 am   Expression: "To smell good" etc
 

Yankee wrote:
Yet another involved mixing a number of "common household ingredients" together (but they also mentioned the necessity to be very careful since the mixture could ignite...).


This sounds like George's Marvellous Medicine!

“So give me a bug and a jumping flea,
Give me two snails and lizards three,
And a slimy squiggler from the sea,
And the poisonous sting of a bumblebee,
And the juice from the fruit of the ju-jube tree,
And the powdered bone of a wombat’s knee,
And one hundred other things as well,
Each with a rather nasty smell,
I’ll stir them up, I’ll boil them long,
A mixture tough, a mixture strong,
And then heigh-ho, and down it goes,
A nice big spoonful (hold your nose),
Just gulp it down and have no fear.
“How do you like it, Granny dear?”

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/georges-marvellous-medicine-roald-dahl/1018298/
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