SMOKE OUT Definition & Meaning

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smoke out

verb

to subject to smoke in order to drive out of hiding
to bring into the open; expose to the public
they smoked out the plot

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Idioms and Phrases

Expose, reveal, bring to public view, as in Reporters thrive on smoking out a scandal . This expression alludes to driving a person or animal out of a hiding place by filling it with smoke. [Late 1500s]

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Near the coast, the Palisades fire chewed through the Santa Monica Mountains and reduced dream houses with Pacific views to their foundations, sending a jetstream of smoke out to the ocean.

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Otis blew smoke out of his nose, admiring his own muscular arms.

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It was a buggy summer day, and the group of four began building a fire in a barrel to smoke out the mosquitoes.

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Humans, in turn, chop open the trees where the nests are located and smoke out the furious bees.

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Rain and wind will help push the smoke out beginning Sunday night, said Kirby Cook, meteorologist for the National Weather Service Seattle.

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