I’m with Shadow. “Smells like death,” to me, is a smell of rot and decay, unpleasant to the point of nausea.
I’ve used the phrase to mean a everything from a kind of overwhelming mustiness to the aforementioned nauseous rot.
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amicus_curiae
Contrarian, esq.
Hypergraphia
Someone must be right; it may as well be me.
I used to be smart but now I’m just stupid.
—Donnie Smith—
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