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he who smelt it dealt it

A retort made when someone has passed gas that places the blame on the first person to acknowledge the smell. A: "What's that awful smell?" B: "Hey, he who smelt it dealt it!" A: "He who smelt it dealt it!" B: "What are you, nine years old? Besides, that fart clearly came from the dog." A: "You want to take the girls?" B: "Sure, if the alternative is listening to fart sounds and 'He who smelt it dealt it!' on a two–hour ride with the boys!"
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smell of the lamp

To show the signs of arduous, overwrought effort, and to lack freshness or vitality as a result. (Said especially of academic or literary work.) His thesis is meticulously crafted, but the paragraphs are so dry and calculated, and the paper lacks any flourish or style. As a whole, it rather smells of the lamp to me.
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smell of the lamp

show signs of laborious study and effort.
The lamp here is an oil lamp, formerly used for night-time work or study.
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Direct aluminum smelting emissions account for about 17 percent of the overall carbon dioxide total attributable to aluminum making, according to an analysis by Columbia University.
The burner air fan conveys cold burner air from the environment into the heat exchanger, which is heated there in the ZPF smelting systems to about 200[degrees] C.
Siyanda Smelting currently owns a smelting plant comprising three arc furnaces and two induction furnaces, a convertor and associated equipment with a smelting capacity of 7.5mw.
In reality, the term 'smelting' has a specific meaning.
Test samples were collected from the open piles of smelting slag in the south ore smelting plant of Lengshui River, Hunan, China.
With the help of a Scottish mechanic, plant was built at Ynyscedwyn Works to pre-heat the air blown into the furnace and by spring 1837 the works was successfully smelting iron using anthracite coal using the hot blast technique.
Moreover, the cost per tonne to construct a smelter incorporating DX+ Smelting Technology is highly competitive when compared to other technologies, while the construction period is also significantly shorter.
Whatever energy is used when smelting iron, nickel or chromite into their end products, tremendous heat is required.
Using car batteries as a source of lead for the panels benefits the environment in at least three ways: it recycles the neurotoxic heavy metal and keeps it out of landfills, reduces the need for mining and smelting, and creates sustainable, nonpolluting energy.
The Legacy of American Copper Smelting: Industrial Heritage Versus Environmental Policy
Now a national park, Timna Valley was an ancient copper production district with thousands of mines and dozens of smelting sites.
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