Слово англійською: smoke

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Переклад smoke українською: дим

noun

/sməʊk/

[uncountable] the grey, white or black gas that is produced by something burning
- cigarette/tobacco smoke
- Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the area.
- The explosion sent a huge cloud of smoke into the sky.
- Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
- smoke from something His eyes were smarting from the smoke from the fire.
- The smoke from their cigarettes curled upwards.
- The majority of people who die in fires die of smoke inhalation.
- Check your smoke detectors for dead batteries.
- The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke.
- I can definitely smell smoke.
see also second-hand smoke
[countable, usually singular] (informal) an act of smoking a cigarette
- Are you coming outside for a smoke?
- He's in the back garden having a smoke.
the Smoke

(also the big smoke)
[singular] (British English, informal) London, or another large city

Word OriginOld English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch.

Idioms

blow smoke (up somebody’s ass)

(North American English, offensive, slang) to try to trick somebody or lie to somebody, particularly by saying something is better than it really is

go up in smoke

to be completely burnt
- The whole house went up in smoke.
if your plans, hopes, etc. go up in smoke, they fail completely
- Hopes of an early end to the dispute have gone up in smoke.
Topics Difficulty and failurec2

(there is) no smoke without fire (British English)

(North American English where there’s smoke, there’s fire)

(saying) if something bad is being said about somebody/something, it usually has some truth in it

smoke and mirrors

the fact of hiding the truth with information that is not important or relevant
- There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the financing of this film.

a smoke-filled room

(disapproving) a decision that people describe as being made in a smoke-filled room is made by a small group of people at a private meeting, rather than in an open and democratic way