wake up and smell the coffee. Slang definitions & phrases for wake up and smell the coffee. wake up and smell the coffee. sentence. Become aware before it's too late: The legislators had better wake up and smell the coffee/ Why Bond Bulls Need to Wake Up, Smell the Coffee/ Wake up and smell where the money's going (1990s+) 14 Quotes for Daily Inspiration.
Definition of Blemmyes. : an ancient Ethiopian Hamitic people dwelling between the Nile and the Red sea.
Blighty was the inevitable British soldierâs corruption of bilÄyatÄ«, meaning Britain in particular. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915.ld Blighty (historically just Blighty) is an affectionate way of referring to Britain, still common among expatriates.