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bigworm  #329105  Wed, 14 Feb 07 07:21 AM

It didn't really pass the smell test in the first place, it looks like 2.5 percent now

What does the sentence mean?

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Annvan  #329112  Wed, 14 Feb 07 07:39 AM
Hi Bigworm! Could you give us a bit more of the context? Thanks!
  
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bigworm  #329119  Wed, 14 Feb 07 07:54 AM

It's a news from Yahoo! as below

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Annvan  #329175  Wed, 14 Feb 07 11:00 AM
"To pass the smell test" is an idiom meaning "to be morally acceptable". So, this sentence probably means something like: It wasn't really correct in the first place, and now it only looks very slightly more so.
  
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