Today I Found Out
When Doctors Literally Blew Smoke Up Your Arse (2016x93)
Date de diffusion: Mai 10, 2016
→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/Today→“blowing smoke up your arse” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered.
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http://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/james/blaste/blaste.app.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=iKk-AAAAYAAJ&hl=en
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2802%2908339-3/fulltext
http://books.google.com/books?id=tZ8EAAAAQAAJ&hl=en
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/ever_wonder_where_the_expression_blow_smoke_up_your_ass_came_from
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I066/10328187.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tobacco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpentine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
http://listverse.com/2013/07/31/10-bizarre-medieval-medical-practices/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-belofsky/crazy-historical-medical-_b_3516415.html
http://engineerofknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/smoke-enema-kit.jpg
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