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[smell a rat] {v. phr.}, {informal} To be suspicious; feel that something is wrong. * /Every time Tom visits me, one of my ashtrays disappears. I'm beginning to smell a […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[smell up] {v.}, {informal} To make a bad smell. * /A skunk smelled up our yard last night./ * /Mr. Brodsky's cigar smelled up the living room./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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