smell something fishy; Definitions include: to detect that something is amiss. take time to smell the roses; Definitions include: to take the time to enjoy life. wake up and smell; Definitions include: to acknowledge. wake up and smell the coffee; Definitions include: a command/invitation to accept reality. wake up and smell the decaf
elated (at/by something) very happy and excited because of something good that has happened, or will happen They were elated at the result. I was elated by the prospect of the new job ahead.
The response of her audience, a standing ovation and elated ululation, is not a response to the meaning of her poem but rather to the sight and sound of her body finding its ease in place and poetry--the result, that is, of her efforts to become part of place and caravan through staying with what she had experienced as alienating.