Usually means: Realize the truth, face reality.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. wake up and smell the coffee: Merriam-Webster
  2. wake up and smell the coffee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wake up and smell the coffee: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wake up and smell the coffee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. wake up and smell the coffee: Wiktionary
  6. Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wake up and smell the coffee, wake up and smell the coffee: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wake up and smell the coffee: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (wake up and smell the coffee)

verb:  (idiomatic, US, Philippines, informal) Often in the infinitive or imperative: to face reality and stop deluding oneself.

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