"O fracasso cheira mal."

Translation: The failure smells bad.

[jonathan.j5]

Is this a Portuguese idiom?

[Paulenrique]

Hmmmm this sentence smells bad :/ ive never seen before!

[WesleyAlcoforado]

hahahahaha

Me neither... it seems like a literal translation.

[jonathan.j5]

I just had a thought, there is an English phrase "reek of failure" and reek would translate into smells bad, could we have a garbled translation here?