Sentence examples for for the smelling from inspiring English sources

Send for the smelling salts.

You think players didn't know that fans were reaching for the smelling salts and one-liners?

His various gags in 2002's ceremony had the Daily Mail reaching for the smelling salts.

Reach for the smelling salts if you lost interest in this match at lunchtime yesterday.

In the process, I expect he sent the neocon wing of his campaign running for the smelling salts.

If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts.

Historically, however, something almost always goes wrong for the team smelling the roses.

There are two reasons for the Conservative government's decline--for "the smell of death" that has gathered around it, to quote Peter Jenkins of the Observer.

"It should put the questions about protections — at least for the delta smelt and the estuary — to rest".

Despite boasting a lengthy rap-sheet that includes gouging Tito Vilanova's eye, prompting the pile-on that forced respected referee Anders Frisk to retire and helping Eva Carneiro out of her job at Chelsea, among other highlights, José's comparatively mild and harmless taunting of the Juve crowd seems to have got assorted commentators clutching their pearls and reaching for the smelling-salts.

Have a name for the smell?