smoke : Idioms & Phrases

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chain-smoke

  • verb smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one
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Frost smoke

  • an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.
    The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane.
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gun smoke

  • noun smoke created by the firing of guns
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prairie smoke

  • noun North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits
    purple avens; Geum triflorum.
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smoke alarm

  • noun an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
    fire alarm.
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Smoke arch

  • the smoke box of a locomotive.
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Smoke ball

  • (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.
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Smoke black

  • lampblack. Obs.
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Smoke board

  • a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
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smoke bomb

  • noun a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes; used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position
    smoke bomb.
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Smoke box

  • a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney.
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smoke bush

  • noun any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
    smoke bush.
  • noun any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers
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smoke grenade

  • noun a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes; used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position
    smoke bomb.
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smoke hole

  • noun a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape
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smoke out

  • verb drive out with smoke
    • smoke out the bees
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Smoke sail

  • (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.
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smoke screen

  • noun (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements
    smokescreen.
  • noun an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure
    smokescreen.
    • requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures
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Smoke tree

  • noun any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
    smoke bush.
  • noun greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
    Dalea spinosa.
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  • (Bot.), a shrub (Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke.
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smoke-cured

  • adjective satellite (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
    smoked; smoke-cured.
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smoke-dried

  • adjective satellite (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
    smoked; smoke-cured.
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smoke-dry

Smoke"-dry` transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To dry by or in smoke.
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smoke-filled

  • adjective satellite containing smoke
    • smoke-filled rooms
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smoke-free

  • adjective satellite free of smoke
    • smoke-free offices and restaurants
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smoked eel

  • noun eel cured by smoking
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smoked haddock

  • noun haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter
    finnan; finnan haddock; finnan haddie.
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smoked herring

  • noun a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
    red herring.
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smoked mackerel

  • noun mackerel cured by smoking
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smoked salmon

  • noun salmon cured by smoking
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smoking car

  • noun a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
    smoker; smoking car; smoking carriage.
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smoking carriage

  • noun a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
    smoker; smoking car; smoking carriage.
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smoking compartment

  • noun a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
    smoker; smoking car; smoking carriage.
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smoking gun

  • noun indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)
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smoking jacket

  • noun a man's soft jacket usually with a tie belt; worn at home
    lounging jacket.
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smoking mixture

  • noun a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe
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smoking room

  • noun room in a hotel or club set apart for smokers
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To end in smoke

  • to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. same as go up in smoke.
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To smoke the pipe of peace

  • to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, a custom of the American Indians.
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