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chimneysmoke 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, smoke Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. smoke 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, smoke McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. smoke like a chimney smoke tobacco incessantly.See also: chimney, like, smoke Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary ˌsmoke 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, smoke Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary smoke 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, smoke McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions smoke 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 The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also:- smoke like a chimney
- smoke like a chimney, to
- as large as life
- lang may yer lum reek
- lum
- reek
- fixed in (one's) ways
- a state of affairs
- find (oneself) with (something)
- find oneself with
References in classic literature He looked about for a nice convenient place, and he fixed upon the chimney. Original Peter Rabbit Books So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said Alice to herself. Alices Adventures In Wonderland The brigadier sent for some sticks and straw, and having filled the chimney with them, set a light to it. Count of Monte Cristo The Maypole--by which term from henceforth is meant the house, and not its sign--the Maypole was an old building, with more gable ends than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day; huge zig-zag chimneys, out of which it seemed as though even smoke could not choose but come in more than naturally fantastic shapes, imparted to it in its tortuous progress; and vast stables, gloomy, ruinous, and empty. Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty The little house looked so cosy and safe in the darkness, with a bright light showing through its blinds, and the chimney smoking beautifully, and Peter standing on guard. The Adventures of Peter Pan Peter and Tabitha stood with their backs to the door, stooping over a large chest, which, apparently, they had just dragged from a cavity, or concealed closet, on the left side of the chimney. By the lamp in the old woman's hand, Mr. From Twice Told Tales Arriving, at length, in streets remoter and less-frequented than those through which he has passed, he walks beneath tottering house-fronts projecting over the pavement, dismantled walls that seem to totter as he passes, chimneys half crushed half hesitating to fall, windows guarded by rusty iron bars that time and dirt have almost eaten away, every imaginable sign of desolation and neglect. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress Pickwick--hands across--down the middle to the very end of the room, and half-way up the chimney, back again to the door-- poussette everywhere--loud stamp on the ground--ready for the next couple--off again--all the figure over once more--another stamp to beat out the time--next couple, and the next, and the next again--never was such going; at last, after they had reached the bottom of the dance, and full fourteen couple after the old lady had retired in an exhausted state, and the clergyman's wife had been substituted in her stead, did that gentleman, when there was no demand whatever on his exertions, keep perpetually dancing in his place, to keep time to the music, smiling on his partner all the while with a blandness of demeanour which baffles all description. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club In the dim light it cast he was astonished to see a man standing in his chimney, but being naturally courageous he seized a stick and made straight for the supposed thief. Arabian Nights He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel or cross-bar, plumed with soot which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment. Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman The smoke escaped out of the ruined chimney, the light illuminated the room with a kindly glow, and as I ate my simple meal of plain bird and drank the remains of a bottle of red wine which had served me all the afternoon in place of the water, which the region did not supply, I experienced a sense of comfort which better fare and accommodations do not always give. Can Such Things Be The whole of one side of the laboratory was taken up with a large chimney, crucibles, ovens, and such implements as are needed for chemical experiments; tables, loaded with phials, papers, reports, an electrical machine,--an apparatus, as Monsieur Darzac informed me, employed by Professor Stangerson to demonstrate the Dissociation of Matter under the action of solar light--and other scientific implements. The Mystery of the Yellow Room The fact that it had been thrust up the chimney would sufficiently account for these appearances. Murders in the Rue Morgue He is liable for direct damage both to your chimneys and any collateral damage caused by fall of bricks into garden, etc., etc. Actions and Reactions As he comes into the iron country farther north, such fresh green woods as those of Chesney Wold are left behind; and coal pits and ashes, high chimneys and red bricks, blighted verdure, scorching fires, and a heavy never-lightening cloud of smoke become the features of the scenery. Bleak House |