Crossword clues for smell a rat
smell a rat
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To sense something suspicious.
Usage examples of "smell a rat".
And 1 don't want it to be so conspicuous that he might smell a rat.
Of the immediates, some were still posted abroad and would have to be carefully lured back home in a manner so skillful they would not smell a rat.
I can smell a rat a mile away and that little poof and his wife stink to high heaven.
Won't the Asiatic administrators smell a rat in the sudden appearance of a new religion?
The scam would be absolute and it would work, but those higher up, far beyond Khamgirt, would smell a rat somewhere, if only because they were variations of people like me and would have a nose for it.
It had been decided that too many surgical teams and -too much equipment showing up out of nowhere as soon as the sirens sounded would alert Father unnecessarily, make him smell a rat.
If anyone is missing for a month from Walvis, or Windhoek -- it's a small place -- the police smell a rat, and they're very good at that.