Usually means: Suspect something is wrong.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. smell a rat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smell a rat: Merriam-Webster
  3. smell a rat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smell a rat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smell a rat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. smell a rat: Wiktionary
  7. smell a rat: Dictionary.com
  8. Smell a Rat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. smell a rat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smell a rat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smell a rat: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smell a rat: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (smell a rat)

verb:  (idiomatic) To sense something suspicious.

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