savor of

savor of

1. To have the taste or smell of something; to taste or smell in a similar way to something. This broth savors of mint a little bit. This peculiar flower savors of rotting flesh to attract flies and beetles as pollinators.
2. To be strikingly reminiscent or suggestive of something; to give a strong indication or implication of something. Their whole PR statement about the firing savors of corporate greed and incompetence. The judge's sudden reversal of his decision savors of bribery, if you ask me. The way she talked to him savored of arrogance.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

savor of something

to taste like something. This casserole savors of nutmeg. The meat savors of too much garlic.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

savor of

v.
1. To have some taste or smell: This dish savors of curry.
2. To display some quality or characteristic: Your attitude savors of vanity.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • take (someone or something) out of (someone or something)
  • smelt
  • he who smelt it dealt it
  • I smell you
  • wake up and smell the coffee
  • smell
  • mask out
  • smell out
  • stink out
  • stinking with something
References in classic literature
"The soul not being mistress of herself," says Thseng-tseu, "one looks, and one does not see; one listens, and one does not hear; one eats, and one does not know the savor of food." He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
Also, there's the ineluctable savor of late Picabia, of course, for postmodern terrible is marvelous revisionism.
John Currin