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.
elegiac. adjective. 1  Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals. 2  Of or composed in elegiac couplets.legiac. 1  Gr. & 2  Latin Prosody of or composed in dactylic-hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter) having only an accented syllable in the third and sixth feet: the form was used for elegies and various other lyric poems. 3  of, like, or fit for an elegy.