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wake up and smell the coffee
vb. (context idiomatic English) To face reality and stop delude oneself.
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is the fifth studio album by The Cranberries. Released in 2001, the album has sold 170,000 copies in the US as of April 2007. Worldwide, the album sold 1,300,000 copies by 2002.
This marks the band's only album on MCA Records. They were transferred to MCA after the merger of PolyGram (which owned their previous label, Island Records) with MCA's parent Universal Music Group in 1999.
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (film)
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is a screen adaptation of Eric Bogosian's one man show of the same name. It first aired in 2001.
Usage examples of "wake up and smell the coffee".
Sinbad had enough smarts to realize you might need this--wake up and smell the coffee substitute!