OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 58532

stink to high heaven

/ˈstɪŋk tə haɪ ˈhɛv(ə)n/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
oler a chotuno
To have a very strong and unpleasant smell.
He could stand snakes, but alligators he disliked. It was the way they dragged their victims underneath the water and buried them, waiting until the corpse became rotten. That was…
Pill-popping rocker Elvis Presley was so hooked on drugs he refused to bathe for months on end, he often wet his pants – and he stunk to high heaven!
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