Sentence examples for smelling a rat from inspiring English sources
At this late stage, many none-too-affluent G.O.P. voters appear to be smelling a rat.
But the public have been smelling a rat for a long time.
Pakistan votes on Thursday, for a new Parliament that its military government calls the harbinger of a brave new democracy, and as in elections past, the National Identity Card has many people smelling a rat.
Snape had secrets, and this inner life infused one of the outstanding performances in the series as he stalked the corridors and back passages at Hogwarts like the ghost in Hamlet, smelling a rat at every turn, his noble face contorted with mysterious loathing and curious motivation.
It is almost inconceivable that Madoff could have spent 20 years squirreling away clients' money in a Chase Manhattan bank account, conducting virtually no legitimate transactions, without anybody at Madoff Investment Securities smelling a rat – even if, as he asserts, he was deliberately employing under-qualified staff with no expertise in the securities industry.
When things get tricky and both the Germans start smelling a rat, he flees to Turkey where he claims to be a Polish refugee.
