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 definition of elegiac is full of mourning and sorrow. An example of something elegiac is a poem about the loss of a loved one. elegiac. Gr. elegiac. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.