('chiefly Brit') You look 'smashing' in that dress. = That dress looks 'smashing' on you.
The play was a 'smashing' success. [=a very great success]
I was so mad I felt like 'smashing' his face 'in'.
(..) laughing. I can't even remember when that was. Mom had psychotic episodes. She had hallucinations. Of smashing our heads in with rocks. I heard them talking about it. Mom was sicker than any of us knew. Dad her crazy. (..)2016 Captain Fantastic