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Hut Gutsuliya Posted 10 years ago
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Smell yourself awake - help me understand
Sallin invented a new kind of alarm clock: A wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon rather than sound to wake someone up...... "So instead of an alarm you smell yourself awake", says Sallin.
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?????? you smell yourself awake" It triggers a waking state by using the sense of smell. You do this yourself by setting the "alarm" on the clock.
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- you smell yourself awake" It triggers a waking state by using the sense of smell.
- You do this yourself by setting the "alarm" on the clock.
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?????? ??????you smell yourself awake"It triggers a waking state by using the sense of smell. You do this yourself by setting the "alarm" on the clock.
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?????? ??????smell yourself awakeIt's an oblique analog of constructions like "slap yourself awake", "laugh yourself silly", or "work yourself ragged". You do the activity of the verb until you achieve the state given by the adjective.
It's a novel use of language rather than a standard expression, by the way.
CJ
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