to smell a rat
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
To smell a rat
. See under Smell.
From the entry Rat.
To smell a rat
to have a sense of something wrong, not clearly evident; to have reason for suspicion. colloquial
From the entry Smell.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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