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ДЕЛО ПАХНЕТ КЕРОСИНОМ highly coll (sent pres or past fixed WO

this is a bad situation, nothing good will come of it (used when s.o. is about to fail, when it is clear that a conflict is about to arise, when s.o. realizes that sth. desired will not materialize etc): things are in a bad way

this means trouble person X is in big (a heap of) trouble.