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smoking like a chimney !	this is used to describe a person who is chain smoker or smoking non stop.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
no smoking	A phrase used in notices indicating that the smoking of cigarettes, etc., is not permitted in the surrounding area.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
smoking gun	Evidence, particularly of a crime, that is difficult or impossible to dispute.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
smoking gun	The conclusive evidence, the bare facts, clear and decisive picture.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
what are you smoking	Indicates that interlocutor is acting in a crazy or unprecedented way.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
what was someone smoking	Used to express surprise about someone's uncharacteristic or whacky, offbeat past actions.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
second banana	A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bury the lead	To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
kick the habit	To recover from or quit an addiction or habit. For example, to quit smoking, drinking, burping, or drug addiction.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
second banana	A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators	(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
double up	To have a secondary use.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
Take a Backseat	To be at a secondary position or to be at a level of inferiority as compared to someone else	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
bit on the side	Secondary lover, mistress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
blaze up	To begin smoking cannabis; to light up cannabis; to get high. <--so this shd be 2 separate senses?-->	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
é proibido fumar	no smoking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
from my standpoint	From my standppint, smoking hookah is more detrimental than cigarette.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il s'agit bien de cela (ironic.)	That is quite a secondary consideration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
knock-on effect	A secondary, often unintended effect.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pipe	Meanings relating to a smoking implement.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
smoke up	To cook by smoking.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spark up	To light up; light a cigarette or start smoking a pipe, bong, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spin off	To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
straight shooter	A type of pipe used for smoking cocaine.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tail wagging the dog	A minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
воспрещается курить	no smoking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
курение запрещено	no smoking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
не курить	no smoking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
禁止吸煙	no smoking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)