to smell of the lamp

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English term or phrase:	to smell of the lamp
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11:29 Nov 5, 2008

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Social Sciences - Philosophy

English term or phrase: to smell of the lamp

Hola, estoy haciendo una traducción sobre un texto de Richard Rorty, aquí les pego la oración completa:

Still, I think that "deconstruction" is a fancier, more sophisticated, weapon than the left needs. Fraser's suggestion that "deconstruction" be elevated to a par with "socialism" among leftist aims seems to me to smell of the lamp. Spotting latent incoherence in ideas, identities, and institutions, in the Derridean manner, is something people trained in various recently founded academic programs are often good at.

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Explanation:
—Idiom9. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.

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Explanation:
—Idiom9. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.

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De acuerdo con algunas definiciones que encontré en Google esta sería mi sugerencia si quisiéramos trasladar el sentido de esta frase metafórica al español.

Smells of the Lamp

Said of a literary production manifestly laboured. Plutarch attributes the phrase to Pytheas the orator, who said, “The orations of Demosthenes smell of the lamp,” alluding to the current tale that the great orator lived in an underground cave lighted by a lamp, that he might have no distraction to his severe study.

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To smell of the lamp, to bear marks of great study and
labor, as a literary composition.
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Reference: http://dictionary.die.net/to%20smell%20of%20the%20lamp
Reference: http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/smells-lamp.htm...

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