English-Spanish translation for "smell"

smell {noun} (also: fragrance, odor, bouquet, scent)

smell {noun}

to smell [smelt; smelled|smelt; smelled] {vb} (also: to nose)

     bad smell

     to smell bad

     to smell foul

     there's a smell of something rotten

     there's a smell of something rotting

You can smell professionals at work.

It was the democracies ' fear that made Hitler smell blood.

Mr President, money does not smell, as the Romans would say.

Nor did the Commission come up smelling of roses here.

We in this House should sweep away this foul-smelling filth from in front of our own front doors first.

And when the caravan left (Egypt), their father said, "Verily, I smell the presence of Joseph; nay, think me not a dotard.

With regard to the implementation and evaluation of this programme, the Commission has not exactly come up smelling of roses.

I wish they would serve Parma ham, spaghetti with pesto from Genoa, polenta from Veneto and sweet-smelling tomatoes from Naples! "

There are others, however, whose motives are more about the smell of an election in their nostrils or a particular domestic agenda to which they are playing.

The rapporteur, the Committee on Citizens ' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and the plenary have served us up documents that smell of death.

Can you not smell the olive oil on the Neapolitan mozzarella, on the tomatoes from southern Italy, with a little parmesan and a good glass of red wine or beer?

We have seen that systematic attempts were made in 2002 to link a staff dispute that arose in the Commission with the smell of a cover-up of possible fraud in the accounting system.

After all, each school, each educational network, wants to come out of this enquiry smelling of roses, but at the same time, each parent wants their children to attend good schools.

What is the point of warning notices if there is nothing to warn against, and what is the point of bans on fragrances that are meant to neutralise smells?

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, in the Netherlands the largest telecom operator is going to put on the market a telecom card with a smell as a marketing stunt.