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Pluvious

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144. A bit more background on the phrase

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 11:48 AM

7 hrs ago

This is what I stumbled upon

I'm guessing she picked it up from the Nescafé ads, and helped popularize it
( or was she in the ads saying it? I guess we'll never know lol )

This one, as far as we can tell, originated in a Nescafé ad campaign and was popularized by the late advice columnist Ann Landers. Some people think it should be "wake up and smell the roses" but they're wrong. That phrase is actually a mixture of the old standard "stop and smell the roses" and "wake up and smell the coffee."

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/2013/0504/15-hidden-meanings-of-popular-food-phrases/Wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee

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