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to smell a rat..Ganesh #1 (permalink) Mon Jul 26, 2010 22:45 pm   to smell a rat..Ganesh
 

to smell a rat ...to be suspisious//to hunt mice
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to smell a rat..Ganesh #2 (permalink) Mon Jul 26, 2010 23:01 pm   to smell a rat..Ganesh
 

To smell a rat is to have a feeling that something is not right with something.
Like, something about this guy doesn't sit right with me, I smell a rat!
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to smell a rat..Ganesh #3 (permalink) Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:46 am   to smell a rat..Ganesh
 

smell a rat
to think or suspect that something is wrong about a situation
▪ She smelled a rat when her husband came home with lipstick on his collar.


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