English Dictionary

smell test

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) An informal method for determining whether something is authentic, credible, or ethical, by using one's common sense or sense of propriety.

日本語の意味

常識や倫理観に基づいて、物事が本物で信頼できるかどうか、あるいは正当であるかを判断する非公式な方法

Before investing, run a quick smell test to see if the proposal seems legitimate.

投資する前に、その提案が本当に正当かどうかを確かめるために、簡単な常識のチェックをしてみてください。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) An informal method for determining whether something is authentic, credible, or ethical, by using one's common sense or sense of propriety.

It just doesn't pass the smell test. It just creates too many opportunities for cutting corners, doing unethical things and basically not telling the truth.

意味（2）

An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food.

I give the smell test to many foods when I shop.

意味（3）

(physiology) An assessment of a subject's ability to detect and distinguish odors.

Although scientists have yet to pin down any biological basis for cigarette smokers' impaired performance on the smell test, Doty says he suspects that certain chemicals in smoke . . . damage the olfactory receptor cells in the nose.

smell tests （ plural ）