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Smoke out   /smoʊk aʊt/   Listen
verb
Smoke out  v. t.  
1.
To drive from a refuge or hiding place by causing dense smoke or other noxious fumes to permeate the refuge; as, the police smoked out the bank robbers with tear gas.
2.
Hence: (metaphorical) To expose; to force into public view; to reveal in its true light; as, the reporter smoked out the waffling candidate with a direct question, exposing his view on the issue.





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"Smoke out" Quotes from Famous Books



... (the opening between the fire chamber and the smoke chamber) and at once induces a down-draft of cold air. If the back of the fireplace were on the same continuous plane with the rear side of the chimney flue, this downward current of cold air would strike directly upon the fire itself and force smoke out into the room. The smoke shelf is built just where it will prevent this action. The sectional diagram does not perhaps make quite clear the shape of this smoke chamber, but the accompanying perspective ...
— Making a Fireplace • Henry H. Saylor
 
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... doctor, with a long puff of smoke out of his pipe. "If you are convinced of that, you are one of the wisest men I have met with, young as you are. I must have been twice your age before I got so far; and even now, I am sometimes fool enough to doubt the only thing I was ever sure of knowing. But come, you make me only the more ...
— Septimius Felton - or, The Elixir of Life • Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
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... they generally went barefoot. The houses for the field slaves were about fourteen feet square, built in the coarsest manner, having but one room, without any chimney, or flooring, with a hole at the roof at one end to let the smoke out. ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
 
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... fleeting thoughts are germs of acts, it takes no great effort or self-torture if we will but understand the processes and smoke out the undesirable germs, and allow and encourage the growth of the preferred groups of thoughts. This may be called a lazy man's way of doing things, but it is the way to conserve the mental and physical energy, ...
— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness
 
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... victory; Unity played with her spoon and thought of her wedding-gown; Deb drank her glass of milk and planned a visit with Miranda to a blasted pine tree, lived in, all the quarter agreed, by a ha'nt that came out at night, like a ring of smoke out of a great ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
 
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