• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    1 year ago

    I’m being willfully obtuse.

    Don’t think: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire

    Instead think: Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
    And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

    According to Wikipedia its also a meatball.

    • SadLuther@lemmy.kya.moe
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      1 year ago

      Ohhhhh I gotcha. Thanks for linking it to Wikipedia! I think I got confused because I didn’t see the relation with stick, and I feel like the abbreviated form of the word used to describe a cigarette is quite an outdated term now.

      Honestly when you mentioned smoke, I was thinking of it as a noun with the second context you mentioned. But not being a tobacco smoker myself, the devil’s lettuce popped into my mind instead.