stinking

Related to stinking: stinking rich, Stinking rose

be stinking rich

To have a lot of money. The term is usually disparaging. I can't believe it—that guy's stinking rich but won't give a dime to charity. We'll be stinking rich if we can market these to the right audience.
See also: rich, stinking

cry stinking fish

To undermine one's own efforts; to put oneself down. A reference to fishmongers, who would find little business if they proclaimed their fish smelled bad. Primarily heard in UK. A: "And I'm awful at doing reports." B: "Come on, buddy, don't cry stinking fish! You're so talented and have so much to offer the company—don't put yourself down!"
See also: cry, fish, stinking

don't cry stinking fish

Don't undermine your own efforts or put yourself down. A reference to fishmongers, who would find little business if they proclaimed their fish smelled bad. Primarily heard in UK. A: "And I'm awful at doing reports." B: "Come on, buddy, don't cry stinking fish! You're so talented and have so much to offer the company—don't put yourself down!"
See also: cry, fish, stinking

stink

1. noun, slang A great fuss or ruckus; a lot of trouble. Used especially in the phrase "make/raise a stink" or similar variations. My mom raised a stink when the store refused to accept her return without a receipt. One of the customers is making a stink about the service charge we included on his bill.
2. noun, slang Something scandalous, controversial, or especially unpleasant. The stink of his association with the corrupt company continues to follow him to this day. He knew it was just a matter of time before the stink surrounding him caught the attention of the authorities.
3. verb, slang To be especially bad, abhorrent, or inferior in quality. Your plan stinks, Tom! There's no way it would work! The timing of this audit just really stinks. The first film was an overlooked classic, but the two sequels both stink.
4. verb, slang To be or seem extremely disreputable, suspicious, or corrupt. This deal between the company and the mayor's office stinks, if you ask me. I'd be willing to bet that someone's pocket is being lined. This city stank to high heaven before I came in and brought some law and order to it.

stink of (something)

1. To smell very potently of something unpleasant. My hands always stink of garlic after I have to chop it up. He came down for his prom stinking of his dad's aftershave. The house stinks of wet dog—open the window!
2. To have a lot of or give the strong impression of something particularly unpleasant, offensive, or insidious. The deal struck by the government and the corporate lobbying groups stinks of corruption. The verdict of the trial stinks of prejudice. Their family positively stinks of money.
See also: of, stink

stink on ice

To be exceptionally rotten, repulsive, or poor. From the idea of meat stinking with rot even when kept cold on ice. This is a travesty for everyone involved. The whole situation just stinks on ice. I knew the plan stank on ice the moment the boss began describing it.
See also: ice, on, stink

stink out

1. To fill something with an overpowering smell, especially a bad one. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "stink" and "out." Please don't stink out my car with your nasty cigarettes! We really stank the room out working with those noxious chemicals.
2. To cause someone to leave or flee (some place or thing) due to an overpowering stench. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "stink" and "out." The nest of skunks beneath our porch stank us out of our house for nearly a week.
3. To perform very poorly, especially in sports. They started out strong, but then they really stank out the place in the second half.
See also: out, stink

stink to high heaven

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

stink up

1. To fill something or some place with a foul odor. A noun or pronoun can be used between "stink" and "up." Tom, your tuna sandwich is stinking up the office! Please go eat it somewhere else! Please don't stink the house up with your smoking—if you have to do it, go outside.
2. To give a very poor or poorly received performance in some location. A noun or pronoun can be used between "stink" and "up." Hopefully this awful play won't be stinking up theaters for much longer. I've never seen them play so poorly. They're really stinking the place up tonight.
See also: stink, up

stink with (something)

1. To smell very potently of something unpleasant. My hands always stink with garlic after I have to chop it up. He came down for his school dance stinking with aftershave. The house stinks with wet dog—open the window!
2. To have an excessive or obscene amount of something; to be rife with something. Their family positively stinks with money. This city has been stinking with corruption for years.
See also: stink

stinking drunk

Extremely drunk; so drunk that one stinks of alcohol. If you're going to keep coming home stinking drunk each night, then you can just find somewhere else to live! We all ended up getting stinking drunk on cheap vodka.
See also: drunk, stinking

stinking rich

Extremely wealthy. Their family is stinking rich, so they can afford to go on such extravagant vacations every year. Janet got stinking rich off her investments.
See also: rich, stinking

We don't need no stinkin' (something)!

Used humorously to emphasize that one absolutely does not need something. Popularized in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles as "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!," parodying a similar line in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the 1927 novel on which it's based. What do you want to go to college for? You don't need no stinkin' college degree! Just get a job as a mechanic like your old man here! A: "How can people deny something that is a scientific fact?" B: "Seriously! People are like, 'Science? We don't need no stinkin' science!'"
See also: need, no, we
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stink on ice

Sl. to be really rotten. (so rotten as to reek even when frozen.) This show stinks on ice. The whole idea stank on ice.
See also: ice, on, stink

stink something up

to make something or some place smell very bad. Your cooking really stunk the place up! The rotten eggs will stink up the whole house.
See also: stink, up

stink to high heaven

 and smell to high heaven
Fig. to smell very bad. What happened? This place stinks to high heaven. This meat smells to high heaven. Throw it away!
See also: heaven, high, stink

stinking rich

Fig. very rich. I'd like to be stinking rich for the rest of my life. Tiffany is stinking rich, and she acts like it.
See also: rich, stinking

stinking with something

Fig. having lots of something. Mr. Wilson is just stinking with cash. Those guys are stinking with jewelry.
See also: stinking
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

stink to high heaven

Also, smell to high heaven. Be of very poor quality; also, be suspect or in bad repute. For example, This plan of yours stinks to high heaven, or His financial schemes smell to high heaven; I'm sure they're dishonest. This expression alludes to something so rank that it can be smelled from a great distance. [c. 1600]
See also: heaven, high, stink
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

cry stinking fish

disparage your own efforts or products.
This expression stems from the practice of street vendors crying their wares (i.e. shouting and praising their goods) to attract customers. If a vendor were to cry ‘stinking fish’, he could not expect to attract many.
1991 Independent on Sunday I want to use the Home Affairs Committee Report for those in racing to go forward together and at last to stop crying ‘stinking fish’.
See also: cry, fish, stinking

stink (or smell) to high heaven

have a very strong and unpleasant odour.
See also: heaven, high, stink
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

be stinking ˈrich

(informal, usually disapproving) be extremely rich: He doesn’t need to work for a living — he’s stinking rich.
See also: rich, stinking
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

stink up

v.
1. To cause something to have a strong foul odor: The garbage is stinking up the kitchen. Keep your shoes on so you don't stink the car up with your smelly feet!
2. To perform very poorly in some place: The movie is stinking up theaters across the US. That band really stunk the joint up last night.
See also: stink, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

stink

1. in. to be repellent; to be suspicious and poorly planned. (Of schemes and plots.) This whole setup stinks.
2. n. a commotion. (see also raise a stink (about someone/something).) The stink you made about money has done no good at all. You’re fired.

stink on ice

in. to be really rotten, bad, poorly done, or repellent. (So rotten as to reek even when frozen.) This show stinks on ice.
See also: ice, on, stink

stinking

1. Go to stinking (drunk).
2. mod. lousy; rotten. That was a mean stinking thing to do. Really stinking!

stinking (drunk)

mod. alcohol intoxicated. He was really stinking.
See also: drunk, stinking

stinking

verb
See stinking drunk

stinking rich

mod. very rich. I’d like to be stinking rich for the rest of my life.
See also: rich, stinking

stinking with something

mod. with lots of something. Mr. Wilson is just stinking with dough.
See also: something, stinking
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be stinking rich
  • stinking rich
  • stinking with
  • stinking with something
  • stink with
  • stink with (something)
  • stink of (something)
  • stink on ice
  • stink up
  • a fat cat
References in periodicals archive
With all these changes, there are as few as six hundred stinking cedars left in the world.
A not-for-profit group of citizens, the Torreya Guardians, have gathered samplings and seeds of stinking cedars and shipped them to over thirty locations around the world.
In 2003, during a break from evangelical wandering, Connie was strolling Torreya State Park in North Florida, where the last stinking cedars are.
* The man who classified theToneya was a Florida lawyer and botanist, Hardy Croom, who named the stinking tree after science colleague John Torrey.
Every time a person sees a traffic-cone-orange pile of flotations aboard a ferry, or feels the secure styrofoam-like fluff beneath a water-bound seat, or should be saved by one in an unexpected storm or a grounding or a too-tight turn, she should thank Hardy Croom, the first cataloguer of stinking cedars; his wife; his innocent children; and everyone else who went down on Home, for their deaths provided salvation to float upon.
The stinking cedar remains on the ground are a dull brown, and each part looks shriveled, shrunken.
From the moment I'm on the trail looking for stinking cedars, I have twenty mosquitoes orbiting my face with the noise of squealing motors.
In addition to being damaged by climate change, deer, and parasites, the stinking cedars suffer their ancient rootstock: The old roots must sprout trunks because the trees do not live long enough to seed.
The Great Story of the Stinking Cedar in the Garden of Eden
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit had the same dramatic impact on sales of Stinking Bishop as an earlier movie had had on Wensleydale cheese.
Stinking Bishop cheese was once made by Cistercian monks.
Too little cheese, Gromit
Stressing that a real constitution was the one prepared by masses, he also expressed his deep regrets for conniving with somebody he should have rather eschewed; since " that very person (Musharraf) himself became a part of that (stinking) system".
Shahid Aziz willing over self-trail for 1999 coup
Federal Capital Sasta Ramzan Bazar is full of garbage, due to which stinking smell spreads in the entire bazaar.
Ramazan Sasta bazaars lack cleanliness
GUJAR KHAN, October 18, 2011 (Frontier Star): Residents of Ward No-6 of Gujar Khan are facing enormous problems due to unavailability of proper sanitation and sewerage system, stagnant water and heaps of garbage emitting stinking smell.
Heaps of garbage, lack of sanitation system perturbs locals
By RAWALPINDI, November 25, 2010 (Frontier Star): Heaps of garbage in Gang Mandi, Fruit Mandi is causing Stinking smell and spread of diseases in the area.
Heaps of garbage, stinking smell in Gang Mandi irks citizens