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"Pass the smell test" nghĩa là gì?
24 Dec, 2023
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'Pass the smell test' = vượt qua bài kiểm tra về mùi -> nghĩa là đáng tin, xác thực hay được chấp nhận.
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"That just doesn't pass the smell test," said Daniel McCarthy, an associate professor of marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, who has looked into Peloton's numbers and business model.
“Do you think Jalen Ramsey is REALLY sick, or do you think this is part of a master plan and there’s some kind of nefarious (bất chính) activity going on? I’m not his doctor or his parents but I would say there is some shady business going on here… This just doesn’t pass the smell test and you’d have to be pretty gullible (khờ dại, cả tin) and a bit of a simpleton to think this was NOT part of a bigger strategy.”
According to a searing New Yorker piece from July, Hunter has been the ne’er do well of the Biden family. Multiple stints in rehab. A messy private life. Drummed out of the Navy for a positive cocaine test. Certainly not the bright and shining light that his late brother, Beau, was. What dad wouldn’t want to do whatever he could to help out, if that’s what the vice president did? Who among us wouldn’t understand? But to blithely (vô tình) say that there’s nothing to see here? It doesn’t pass the smell test.
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