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wake up and smell the coffee

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wake up and smell the coffee
Prov. Try to pay attention to what's going on. Things have changed around here, Wallace J. Hodder! Wake up and smell the coffee!
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wake up and smell the coffee
to pay attention and do something about a situation Some parents just deny their kids are having problems, and they'd better wake up and smell the coffee.
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The question that I would like to ask is - when will people in any position to make a decision regarding this wake up and smell the coffee and realise that the grounds and consistency of the opinions of those opposing are not even based on correct information.
Letter: False concerns on energy plant by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
IT was time to wake up and smell the coffee when the latest bunch of aspiring tycoons turned up determined to impress Sir Alan Sugar in the new series of The Apprentice.
McTV; What's hot and what's not on the box.. by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The Cranberries Wake Up And Smell The Coffee (MCA) ITwas easy to write off the Cranberrries after last year's Bury The Hatchet.
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