wake up and smell the coffee
Often in the infinitive or imperative: to face reality and stop deluding oneself.
Your paper gains "notice" as an example of the use of English as it should not be written nor spoken. Wake up and smell the coffee.
coffee
UK /ˈkɒf.i/ US /ˈkɔ.fi/
noun 5adj 2verb 2name 2
Definitions
noun
1
A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.
The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…].
2
A serving of this beverage.
As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.
3
The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
4
The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
5
A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
adj
1
Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
2
Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.
verb
1
To drink coffee.
I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
In the afternoon with Hilda and suite in three Einspänner to just beyond Pontresina; we got out and crossed the bridge over the Bernina to Sans Souci Café, where we coffee'''’d.
2
To give coffee to.
The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.
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