Idiom Category: Drugs, Page 1

Cigarette paper

If you cannot get or put a cigarette paper between people, they are so closely bonded that nothing will separate them or their positions on issues.

Close but no cigar

(USA) If you are close but no cigar, you are close to success or the truth, but have not got there.

Dry as snuff

If something is as dry as snuff, it is very dry indeed.

High as a kite

If someone's as high as a kite, it means they have had too much to drink or are under the influence of drugs.

Pipe dream

A pipe dream is an unrealistic, impractical idea or scheme.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

This is used as an unsympathetic way of telling someone to accept what you have just said.

Smoke like a chimney

Someone who smokes very heavily smokes like a chimney.

Smoke the peace pipe

If people smoke the peace pipe, they stop arguing and fighting.

Weasel words

If somebody uses vaque and unspecific terms to try to avoid being clear about their position or opinion, they are using weasel words.

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