smell to heaven

smell to high heaven

1. To have a very strong unpleasant scent. Can you take this trash out? It smells to high heaven. Ugh, something in this refrigerator smells to high heaven!
2. To be or seem extremely disreputable, suspicious, or corrupt. This deal between the company and the mayor's office smells to high heaven, if you ask me. This town smelled to high heaven before I came in and brought some law and order to it.
See also: heaven, high, smell
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

smell to (high) heaven

 
1. Go to stink to high heaven.
2. Fig. to give signals that cause suspicion. This deal is messed up. It smells to high heaven. something's wrong here. Somebody blabbed. This setup smells to high heaven.
See also: heaven, smell
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

smell to heaven

verb
See smell to high heaven
See also: heaven, smell
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • smell to high heaven
  • smell to high heaven, to
  • smell/stink to high heaven
  • stink to high heaven
  • have a high opinion of (someone or something)
  • be as high as a kite
  • in heaven
  • high gear
  • move heaven and earth
  • move heaven and earth, to
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The Gazette article mentioned above targeted the "insane behavior" of those who defiled their "God-given" bodies by a practice that gives them "the breath of a turkey buzzard" and makes them "smell to heaven." Smoking, said The Gazette article, "is a physical, as well as a moral and mental, vice."
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