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What is the meaning of "to smoke like a chimney" idiom?

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Idiom Conjugations:

 
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Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Smoking like a chimney is probably bad for your health.
 
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Idiom Usage:

This idiom can be used with anyone who smokes heavily including chain smokers.
 
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Idiom Scenario 2:


Ned is in the middle of a poker game with his friends.  They are all smoking cigarettes.  There is a cloud of smoke hanging over the poker table.  Grace is talking on the telephone with a friend.  Grace tells her friend that Ned and his friends...
"are smoking like chimneys."
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Idiom Scenario 1:


Yesterday, Patricia and Nancy visited their friend Daniel.  When they entered his house it was filled with cigarette smoke.   There were ashtrays full of cigarette butts everywhere.  While the two friends visited, Daniel smoked cigarette after cigarette.   Later when Patricia and Nancy were talking, Nancy remarked to Patricia...
"It´s quite something.  Daniel smokes like a chimney!"
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Idiom Definition:


"to smoke like a chimney"
to smoke very many cigarettes (or other tobacco products)
 
Synonyms:
butt, chain-smoke, cig, cigarette, drag, draw, habit, habituated, inhale, obsessed, obsession, puff, tobacco
 
 
This fellow is literally smoking like a chimney. - - - - ->  a cartoon man is sitting on the chimney on the roof of a house.  he is smoking a cigarette with a big plume of smoke rising up.




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