smell a rat

smell a rat  {v. phr.},  {informal}
To be suspicious; feel that something is wrong.
Every time Tom visits me, one of my ashtrays disappears. I'm beginning to smell a rat.
When the policeman saw a light go on in the store at midnight, he smelled a rat.
Categories: informal time verb

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