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Verb
smell like a tart's handbag (third-person singular simple present smells like a tart's handbag, present participle smelling like a tart's handbag, simple past and past participle smelt like a tart's handbag or smelled like a tart's handbag)
- (UK, idiomatic, slang, derogatory, simile) To smell strongly of perfume.
I dropped a perfume bottle on the floor and now the house smells like a tart's handbag.