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Earth and High Heaven — infobox Book | name = Earth and High Heaven title orig = translator = image caption = author = Gwethalyn Graham illustrator = cover artist = country = Canada language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Jonathan Cape and Thomas Nelson… … Wikipedia
smell to (high) heaven — 1. in. to smell very bad. □ This kitchen smells to high heaven. What besides garlic are you cooking? □ Where has this dog been? It smells to heaven. 2. in. to give signals that cause suspicion. □ This deal is messed up. It smells to high heaven … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
stink to high heaven — If something has a very strong unpleasant smell, it stinks to high heaven. Take off those socks they stink to high heaven! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
smell to high heaven — smell/stink to high heaven to smell very bad. That chicken farm stinks to high heaven … New idioms dictionary
stink to high heaven — smell/stink to high heaven to smell very bad. That chicken farm stinks to high heaven … New idioms dictionary
smell to high heaven — smell/stink/to high heaven informal phrase to smell extremely bad Thesaurus: to produce a smellsynonym to shine, glow or give off lightsynonym … Useful english dictionary
stink to high heaven — smell/stink/to high heaven informal phrase to smell extremely bad Thesaurus: to produce a smellsynonym to shine, glow or give off lightsynonym … Useful english dictionary
stink (or smell) to high heaven — informal smell very bad. → the heave ho … English new terms dictionary
Heaven — Heav en (h[e^]v n), n. [OE. heven, hefen, heofen, AS. heofon; akin to OS. hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
heaven — /ˈhɛvən / (say hevuhn) noun 1. (also upper case) (in many religions and mythologies) a place or state of existence where people (often those who have lived righteously or those chosen by a god or gods) live on after death in happiness. In the… …
