stink to high heaven
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stink to high heaven
- /ˈstɪŋk tə haɪ ˈhɛv(ə)n/ US, UK
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A hyperbole suggesting that a smell is so strong it can even be detected from heaven.
verb stinks to high heaven · stinking to high heaven · stank to high heaven · stunk to high heaven
- 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 the way they liked their meat—stinking to high heaven. The thought of such a death filled him with dread.
- Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent. Was it not that I was nauseated by our richest men? By the convicts of riches, who pick up their advantage out of any rubbish, with cold eyes, lewd thoughts; by this rabble that stinks to high heaven; by this gilded, false mob whose fathers have been pickpockets or carrion birds or ragpickers— [...]
