Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Smell a Rat

(To). To suspect something about to happen. The allusion is to a cat or dog smelling out vermin.

I smell treason.
I discern treason involved; I have some aim that would lead to treason.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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