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"Fail the smell test" nghĩa là gì?
26 Oct, 2021
"Fail the smell test" = trượt bài kiểm tra mùi, "có mùi" -> nghĩa là gian dối, không đáng tin cậy.
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According to Sacred Heart no flowers have been stolen and no student has yet to fail the smell test. All students were tested prior to coming on campus in August. Random (ngẫu nhiên) testing is also continuing and by next week, school officials said they it will have randomly tested 50% of the campus population.
Certainly, it’s possible that all the senators’ trades were innocuous, and certainly the presumption of innocence applies. However, their transactions fail the smell test.
If we don’t assume enough investment, asset intensity may decline (giảm sút) rapidly while reinvestment effectiveness skyrockets—both in ways that fail the smell test.
Although listed as bribes (hối lộ), the charges are likely to fail the smell test when it comes to people like O’Donnell since he was not an elected official when the alleged incident took place, and the charges will likely be down-graded to an election violation. These could result in jail time, but most likely won’t for O’Donnell.
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