fragrant disregard

fish smelling shredded porkfragrant disregard \ phrase
an obvious, conspicuously bad sense of smell

“He showed fragrant disregard at the markets, and bought fish that smelt dreadful.”

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The English on this menu in China Town reads “Shredded pork in fragrant hot sauce”.

Although, a literal translation of the Chinese 魚香肉絲 would be “fish-smelling shredded meat”.

Which shows why the literal translation isn’t always what you want.

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