Blow smoke up someone's ass

Michael Sheehan wordmall at AOL.COM
Mon Jul 27 21:15:23 UTC 2009


Need to know the actual origin of "to blow smoke up someone's ass." The
story about 18th c. tobacco smoke enemas seems highly dubious, but it's
all over the place.

Michael J. Sheehan
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