The phrase "stench to" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a strong and unpleasant smell. Example: The garbage truck brought a stench to the neighborhood, making it difficult for residents to go outside.
"An absolutely clean child gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch', my grandmother said.
It has merely its scale to solicit our attention and an alien stench to repel us.
("Often I give off a psychic stench to myself. I do not like myself at all, but out of stubborn pride act like a man who does").
O.K., then, one thinks, this is allegory: "Justice" -- as the world calls it -- really does have a stench to the residents of Chelm.
No, Representative Paul D. Ryan has not given the nickname "Stench" to Mitt Romney, despite a host of credulous journalists and bloggers who accepted as fact a column that Politico intended as satire.
"A lot of them had gotten into trouble building new plants, then demand for power greatly declined," said Justin McCann, a utility analyst for S.& P. "People stayed away from utilities because there was a real stench to them".
And he recalled a line of Kafka's that Salinger had once quoted, about what "a writer himself does when encouraged to flap away: 'He begins to talk a stench.' " To a question about the "wellsprings of humor," De Vries went on, a little impatiently: I cannot honestly recall or retrace the conception or development of a single comedic idea I ever had or developed.
And he recalled a line of Kafka's that Salinger had once quoted, about what "a writer himself does when encouraged to flap away: 'He begins to talk a stench.' " To a question about the "wellsprings of humor," De Vries went on, a little impatiently: **{:.break one} ** I cannot honestly recall or retrace the conception or development of a single comedic idea I ever had or developed.
It's the Great Stink, an August phenomenon of two centuries ago, when the filth and excrement in the Thames finally became too much to bear and the putrid stench led to one of 19th century's greatest reformations: indoor plumbing.
And there was chaos: Management fixed the water main, replaced the microwave, pulled up the carpet, and closed off the bathrooms in an attempt to get rid of the stench, all to no avail.
There is a catch, of course: it is actually the customers of Thames Water who are paying for the project with higher water bills, a prospect almost as horrendous to today's Londoners as the river's stench was to their 19th-century forebears.
