Wake up and smell the coffee Meaning In English

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Meaning

The idiom Wake up and smell the coffee originated in an Nescafé and advertising campaign and was popularized by the late advice columnist Ann Landers. It is used to tell someone to be more serious or realistic about a situation.

Example

If you tell someone to wake up and smell the coffee, it means they need to be more realistic and aware of what's going on around them.

Sentence

I finally had to wake up and smell the coffee that I wasn't going to be a great teacher, but now it doesn't seem like it