smoke like a chimney
smoke like a chimney
To 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 chimney
to 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, to
To 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
- 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