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smoke out

[smoke out] {v. phr.} 1. To force out with smoke. * /The boys smoked a squirrel out of a hollow tree./ * /The farmer tried to smoke some gophers out […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

go up in smoke

[go up in smoke] or [go up in flames] {v. phr.} 1. To burn; be destroyed by fire. * /The house went up in flames./ * /The barn full of […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

smoke

[smoke] See: [CHAIN-SMOKE], [GO UP IN FLAMES] or [GO UP IN SMOKE], [PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT], [WATCH ONE'S DUST] or [WATCH ONE'S SMOKE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

put that in your pipe and smoke it

[put that in your pipe and smoke it] {v. phr.}, {informal} To understand something told you; accept something as fact or reality; not try to change it. - Usually used […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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