smell a rat
Example Sentences
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Did you smell a rat in Season 1?
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
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
Some Barbudans smell a rat, a land grab that could lead to large-scale development.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2017
Smells fishy, they used to say; or, I smell a rat.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
