SMELL A RAT

Domain	Definition
Literature	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: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discovery	Be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn; smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat.
Unbelief Doubt	Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage

Screenplays

Even with a swollen nose, I can still smell a rat. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner)

I smell a rat. (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Frank Butler; Nick Grinde)

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Domain	Title
Music	I Smell a Rat (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat Come crown King Dick!--Jan. 20 / / Youth International Party. Credit: Library of Congress.		You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat : come crown King Dick!. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Cervantes	I begin to smell a rat.
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Expressions using "SMELL A RAT": i smell a rat ♦ To smell a rat. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SMELL A RAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kam dyshim (be in two mind, call in question), dyshoj (call in question, dilly dally, disbelieve, distrust, doubt, misdoubt, question, suspect). (various references)

Arabic		‏أساء الظن ب, ‏شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder). (various references)

Bulgarian		подушвам нещо нередно, подушвам нещо лошо. (various references)

Czech		vìtřit nìco, mít podezření. (various references)

Finnish		siihen on koira haudattuna (I smell a rat, there is something behind this). (various references)

French		soupçonner, douter. (various references)

German		lunte riechen (sense danger). (various references)

Greek		μυρίζομαι βρωμοδουλειά, μυρίζομαι (nose, smell), υποπτεύομαι (misdoubt, suspect). (various references)

Hungarian		gyanakszik. (various references)

Indonesian		membau. (various references)

Pig Latin		ellsmay aay atray

Romanian		aici nu e lucru curat (I smell a rat). (various references)

Russian		чуять недоброе. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		biti nepoverljiv. (various references)

Spanish		sospechar algo. (various references)

Swedish		ana oråd (take alarm). (various references)

Thai		มีความรู้สึกถึงสิ่งผิกปกติ. (various references)

Turkish		pislik sezmek, kuşkulanmak (be doubtful, disbelieve, doubt, fear, feel suspicious, impugn, query, question, surmise, suspect), hile kokusu almak, bityeniği sezmek. (various references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-m-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: laterals, tramells.
	-2 letters: armlets, lamster, lateral, malates, mallets, maltase, smaller, stellar, tamales, tramell, tramels.
	-3 letters: alarms, alates, alerts, altars, alters, armets, armlet, artels, astral, estral, lamest, laster, llamas, malars, malate, mallet, master, maters, matres, meatal, metals, ramate, ramets, ratals, ratels, realms, reatas, sallet, salter, samlet, slater, staler, stelar, stella, stream, talars, talers, taller.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-m-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: mortadellas.
	+3 letters: alkalimeters, bilateralism, ultrarealism.
	+4 letters: alkalimetries, bilateralisms, magisterially, sacramentally, ultrarealisms.
	+5 letters: antiliberalism, asymmetrically, circumvallates, ultramasculine.
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SMELL A RAT

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Literature

Synonyms within Context: SMELL A RAT

Discovery

Unbelief Doubt

Modern Usage: SMELL A RAT

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Music

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Cervantes

Expressions: SMELL A RAT

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SMELL A RAT

i smell a rat

Modern Translation: SMELL A RAT

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
i smell a rat	2
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