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What does "smells like kitten made of mahogany" mean? Or should this phrase be understood literally?

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You are correct, literally. Not any idiom that I've ever heard.
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It's hard to say without knowing the context. Since you heard it on a sitcom, I'd guess that they were making a joke about something smelling like wood.
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I heard it in Siblings sitcom and I thought that literal translation sounded weird, but seems there are no other meanings
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Even Google has never heard of it. Give us the reference? Maybe we can make it a world-wide favourite phrase of 2018? . Now, that smells like kitten made of mahogany. Now, that went like kitten made of mahogany. Now, that went like mahogany kitten. I can see it now. ")
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Never heard of it.

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