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smell a rat







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“I smell a rat like a lot of Americans,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021

Google says it’s part of a “long-standing policy” against creating games that take advantage of “sensitive events,” but some employees smell a rat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 16, 2019

Pilger said that she would often call him, early in the morning, after hearing of a military operation or a surgical air strike somewhere and say, “ ‘I smell a rat.’

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019

Just who at this company of divas, nerds and snakes will be the first to smell a rat?

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2018

Smells fishy, they used to say; or, I smell a rat.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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