Sentence examples for smells fishy from inspiring English sources

"smells fishy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to express suspicion or to insinuate that something isn't right. For example, "The way he was acting was strange- it smelled fishy."

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smells fishy

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Third person singular of smell fishy

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If something smells fishy — it's Gonnerman's.

She thinks the whole thing smells fishy, too.

But what if part of that industry is predicated on a notion that smells fishy?

I've been told that if fish smells fishy, it's not good.

"Residents of Massachusetts are used to spending time near the ocean; we know when something smells fishy".

"That's a fish tale," for example, and "That smells fishy," suggest a highly exaggerated story or blatant lie or misdeed.

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Something smelled fishy.

But something smelled fishy.

Some differences, however, smell fishy.

"Fresh fish should not smell fishy — at all," Ciuba says.

Liver disease, by contrast, often causes the breath to smell fishy.

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