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smoke out
verb
- to subject to smoke in order to drive out of hiding
- to bring into the open; expose to the public
they smoked out the plot
Idioms and Phrases
Expose, reveal, bring to public view, as in Reporters thrive on smoking out a scandal . This expression alludes to driving a person or animal out of a hiding place by filling it with smoke. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
They said the SAT will smoke out intelligent students from humble circumstances.
One landlord even paid somebody to hurl a Molotov cocktail into an apartment just to smoke out tenants and jack up rents.
I screamed that at him, I was fuming mad, that if I was a cartoon you could actually see me blowing smoke out of my ears.
Boulder for instance, has an annual smoke-out at the University of Colorado that routinely draws about 15,000 people.
There are, however, some lengths to which Redstone won't resort in trying to smoke out the leakers.
A mushir (marshal) would find it derogatory to his dignity to smoke out of a stem less than two yards in length.
It was a rather depressed stock-hand, name of Flood, who blew cigarette smoke out over the brow of Writing-Stone that evening.
To be sure, it is a horrible thing blowing smoke out; but every man needs something to quiet him—as, beating with his feet.'
But Amy insisted upon opening one of the windows and so getting more of the smoke out of the long room.
I laid there, and had a good rest and a smoke out of my pipe, looking away into the sky; not a cloud in it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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