According to a coffee shop owner, having a lid on a coffee cup delivers the hot liquid directly past your tongue but stops any smell coming up to your nose, and that can affect the taste.

Well, the speaker uses “smell the coffee” as a metaphor. Apparently nobody’s pinning both the speaker’s arms back and forcing his head down to the edge of a cup of warm coffee, forcing him to say that ...

Wake up and smell the coffee! 清醒点儿吧！ 更新时间 2012年 2月 28日, 星期二 - 格林尼治标准时间12:35 Facebook Twitter Google+ 人人 开心网 新浪微博 qq空间 联合 ...

Jen: I didn’t mean it literally. When we say ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ in English, it means that you need to pay attention because you’re missing something that’s really obvious.