smoke+someone+out

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• smoke someone out — smoke (someone) out to force someone to stop hiding. He didn t just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding. To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets …   New idioms dictionary

• smoke someone/thing out — drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke. → smoke …   English new terms dictionary

• smoke out — smoke (someone) out to force someone to stop hiding. He didn t just walk into the police station and surrender, we had to smoke him out of hiding. To prevent such attacks, you have to smoke out the bad guys before they reach their targets …   New idioms dictionary

• smoke out — verb drive out with smoke smoke out the bees • Hypernyms: ↑rout out, ↑drive out, ↑force out, ↑rouse • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Somebody s somebody …   Useful english dictionary

• smoke — 1 noun 1 (U) grey gas that is produced by something burning: Clouds of black smoke belched from the building. | cigarette smoke 2 (countable usually singular) an act of smoking a cigarette etc: a cup of coffee and a smoke 3 (C) slang a cigarette… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• smoke — noun 1》 a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in the air, typically one emitted from a burning substance. 2》 an act of smoking tobacco.     ↘informal a cigarette or cigar. 3》 (the Smoke or the Big Smoke) Brit. a big city, especially… …   English new terms dictionary

• Smoke, second-hand — Environmental tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily or passively by someone who is not smoking. Environmental tobacco smoke is generated from the sidestream (the burning end) of a cigarette, pipe or cigar or from the exhaled mainstream (the …   Medical dictionary

• smoke out — PHRASAL VERB If you smoke out someone who is hiding, you discover them and make them publicly known. [V n P] The committee have tried dozens of different ways to smoke him out. [V P n (not pron)] ...technology to smoke out tax evaders …   English dictionary

• smoke signal — smoke signals N COUNT: usu pl If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out. The smoke signals coming… …   English dictionary

• smoke — smoke1 W3S3 [sməuk US smouk] n [: Old English; Origin: smoca] 1.) [U] white, grey or black gas that is produced by something burning ▪ clouds of black smoke ▪ cigarette smoke ▪ Smoke from burning fields drifted across nearby roads. ▪ the pall of… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• smoke — [[t]smo͟ʊk[/t]] ♦♦ smokes, smoking, smoked 1) N UNCOUNT Smoke consists of gas and small bits of solid material that are sent into the air when something burns. A cloud of black smoke blew over the city... The air was thick with cigarette smoke.… …   English dictionary