Taste and smell

Smell and taste: metaphorical collocations

• Her cruel remarks left a bad/unpleasant taste in our mouths. [left an unpleasant memory]
• I tasted freedom when I gave up my job and travelled for a year. Now I can’t go back to normal life.
• Hudson and I share the same taste in music; we often buy the same CDs.
• She has developed a taste for fast cars. She’s just bought a bright red Ferrari.
• We smelt danger and decided not to enter the city. It was a wise choice.
• I didn’t hear every word, but I got the flavour of what he was saying and I didn’t like it.