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Complimenting a person merely to gain something in return.
Joe: That automobile salesman sure thought you were a good driver. Did you hear all the compliments he gave you?
Bob: Yeah. He was just blowing smoke up my ass to get me to buy the car.
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A person who gives complements blindly and without thought.
I try to criticize you so that you can improve, but you are not willing to listen. You just want me to always be blowing smoke up your ass.
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When you have to shit really bad. Can’t wait and need to find the nearest toilet.
Man I ate some bad food and gotta go Blow The Shitter Up…
Giving a gratuitous and insincere compliment, possibly to deceive. (Can be my, your, his, or her ass, but probably not plural, as in their asses.)
Yeah, sure. Thanks for the kind words, but I think you're blowing smoke up my ass.
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to give me a cheap thrill that is not genuine, e.g. by flattering me or telling me something you think I want to hear
"Stop trying to blow wind up my skirt." "I really think you are amazing at this. I'm not just blowing wind up your skirt." "That doesn't blow wind up my skirt." (that doesn't really thrill me)
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to bullshit or lie, to tell a falsehood. originally comes from the era of snake-oil salesmen and traveling hucksters pandering cure-all ointments.
one said cure for many ailments (including constipation) was a "tobacco enema" in which the purveyor would literally blow smoke up the afflicted's rectum with a device created solely for this purpose. obviously people caught on soon enough, and figured out that tobacco enemas were embarrassing as well as useless.
as such, the phrase became the euphemism it is today for selling a line of nonsense to an otherwise naive or unsuspecting rube.
person 1: "did you know that recent studies show that rat feces are as effective as any available wrinkle cream on the market?"
person 2: "you're totally blowing smoke up my ass"
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To speak bullshit to someone in a complimentary way. Commonwealth "arse" spelling preferred, as this expression probably has a London origin.
Usually expressed in the negative, by someone professing sincerity.
I'm not going to blow sunshine up your arse, Peter; you're the second-best of the surviving Doctor Whos.
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