→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/Today→“blowing smoke up your arse” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-expression-blow-smoke-ass/ Sources: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/james/blaste/blaste.app.html http://books.google.com/books?id=iKk-AAAAYAAJ&hl=en http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2802%2908339-3/fulltext http://books.google.com/books?id=tZ8EAAAAQAAJ&hl=en http://dangerousminds.net/comments/ever_wonder_where_the_expression_blow_smoke_up_your_ass_came_from http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I066/10328187.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tobacco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpentine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting http://listverse.com/2013/07/31/10-bizarre-medieval-medical-practices/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-belofsky/crazy-historical-medical-_b_3516415.html http://engineerofknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/smoke-enema-kit.jpg