Ok so I probably won't utilize this phrase so much anymore as I had used it in a more broad sense and also did not know about its origin.
https://gizmodo.com/blowing-smoke-up-your-ass-used-to-be-literal-1578620709
I heard it from one of the generational Irish here, someone of descent maybe definitely a tough woman from the working classes. In the past they actually had a lot more useful common sense information about life than people I knew. Well, after my difficult situation started.
I guess it's supposed to be used moreso to refer to compliments being insincere as opposed to just general dishonesty, 'handling' someone or blowing someone off while pretending to do your job.
It does have a disgusting history and I wonder where she heard it.
It's still great but I tend to lean on it too much nowadays.
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