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What the heck does the phrase 'It stinks to high Heaven.' mean?

Posted - July 2, 2018

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  • 22853
    These two again - - they'll get back to you when they figure it out. They smell something up there, though.
    :)

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      July 2, 2018 9:07 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    It means something REALLY stinks!   In fact, it smells so bad that even the Lord in heaven can smell it!! 
    It's rank! 
    It stinks, stank, stunk and still does! 
    Pa-shoo! 
    You DON'T want to go in there (as in bathroom)!!! 
    Smells like something crawled up in there and died!
    Get out the gas masks!

    (Thank you Shakespeare for yet another strange saying!)
      July 2, 2018 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 2658
    Maybe a stinky 'as·ter·oid'. This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at July 3, 2018 11:14 AM MDT
      July 2, 2018 11:05 AM MDT
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  • 32529
    Can mean literally something stinks really bad. God can smell it.
    Or it can mean a the ethics of a situation are very immoral.
      July 2, 2018 11:09 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Maybe someone standing under the Jolly Green Giant when he passed gas?
      July 2, 2018 12:39 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Agree...Petrol does have a very pungent smell ...:( 
      July 2, 2018 2:02 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    That is the smell of xylene. If petrol didn't have xylene it would smell kinda sweet. Not good sweet, but still, sweet.
      July 3, 2018 10:07 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Is that an addictive?
      July 3, 2018 12:49 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    (I always sort of thought that giant was sort of hot.  - - Yes, I think the entire male population is hot.)

    :)


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      July 2, 2018 6:18 PM MDT
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  • 2052
    It is a fraud, a con job, a lie, it stinks so bad you can smell it.
      July 2, 2018 1:54 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Someone is eating curry near you...:) 

    In England, it's means it stinks far worse than an open sewer ....:( 
      July 2, 2018 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    I guess that means we're not going to that Indian restaurant. I'll take you to that place where they boil a sheep for 12 hours and serve it with soupy mashed potatoes.
      July 2, 2018 2:05 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I can't bare the smell let alone the taste.....The food burns every part of your lips, mouth and throat.....not to mention else where....
    My dad has a friend that eats and loves the stuff.....If he's eaten it the night before ,no one will let him in their vans......If he stinks that bad my dad dad won't let him work inside his customers houses....
    In summer when he sweats he reeks of it even more.....

    Have you ever kissed anyone that's eaten it.....please don't try if you haven't.....:( 
      July 2, 2018 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    Yes...and so did she. We ate at an Indian restaurant. She tasted quite good later on, too.
      July 2, 2018 2:24 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    OMG.....that's the biggest turn off ever.......  
    I want my boiled sheep..:) 
      July 2, 2018 2:35 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    LOL
      July 3, 2018 7:15 AM MDT
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  • 2052
    I love curry!
      July 2, 2018 6:30 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I've never been able to eat anything hot and spicy....it makes my tongue feel like it's cracking and it becomes really sore for ages after...:(
      July 3, 2018 2:12 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Me too Sunshine!!  We can go out to an Indian restaurant anytime!  Don isn't a big fan so I never make it or have an opportunity to have it.  I'm glad to see someone else does!  Yipeee!!
      July 3, 2018 11:17 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Something is so patently foul, so putrid in it’s essence that it reeks from every crevice of this temporal firmament to the upper reaches of the distant heavens. 

    Descriptive enough?  This post was edited by Don Barzini at July 3, 2018 3:08 PM MDT
      July 2, 2018 2:54 PM MDT
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  • 13395
      July 2, 2018 8:29 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    It means the smell is so bad.... it reaches even that far.


      July 2, 2018 8:47 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    I post this only because it seemed both interesting and "erudite."

    Stink to high heaven
    Meaning - To have a very strong odor.

    Origin - This expression probably originated from the well-known Shakespearean play 'Hamlet'. It come from a dialog uttered by Hamlet's Uncle, the King of Denmark - "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. A brother's murder."
    This post was edited by tom jackson at July 3, 2018 7:16 AM MDT
      July 2, 2018 11:27 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    If you ever run over a skunk, you will get a demonstration.

      July 2, 2018 11:46 PM MDT
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