blowing smoke up my ass


complimenting a person merely to gain something in return.
joe: that automobile salesman sure thought you were a good driver. did you hear all the compliments he gave you?

bob: yeah. he was just blowing smoke up my -ss to get me to buy the car.
giving a gratuitous and insincere compliment, possibly to deceive. (can be my, your, his, or her -ss, but probably not plural, as in their -sses.)
yeah, sure. thanks for the kind words, but i think you’re blowing smoke up my -ss.
to bullsh-t or lie, to tell a falsehood. originally comes from the era of snake-oil salesmen and traveling hucksters pandering cure-all ointments.

one said cure for many ailments (including constipation) was a “tobacco enema” in which the purveyor would literally blow smoke up the afflicted’s r-ct-m with a device created solely for this purpose. obviously people caught on soon enough, and figured out that tobacco enemas were embarr-ssing as well as useless.

as such, the phrase became the euphemism it is today for selling a line of nonsense to an otherwise naive or unsuspecting rube.
person 1: “did you know that recent studies show that rat feces are as effective as any available wrinkle cream on the market?”

person 2: “you’re totally blowing smoke up my -ss”
most literally translating to “trying to get a reaction” out of somebody. originated from a 16th century technique to determine death by literally blowing tobacco smoke into someone’s -n-s (through a long pipe) – where a reaction indicated that the person was still alive.
guy 1: hey man, i think someone just stole your car!
guy 2: are you blowing smoke up my -ss?

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