It came from the stone age.The stone age people used to say this alot
Something that can supply a sure victory when revealed (per PhraseFinder) ... comes from playing a card game
when you were in diapers when you were in short pants
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from rat city
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i smell a rat is an idiom which means to dectect, suspect or to find the tricks of some on. Ex. I smell a rat of JOHN against Shaun.
One idiom found in the book "Delirium" by Lauren Oliver is "smell a rat," which means to suspect that something is wrong or suspicious.
To "Smell a rat" means that you think "something is fishy", or that "there is something rotten in the state of Denmark." In other words, you think that something, usually slightly evil, is happening, but there is no observable proof of it.To "smell a rat" is to sense that something is not quite right in a situation. You hear this idiom most often when someone is telling you something that you suspect is a lie or not quite all the truth. Joe said that this stock would make us rich, but I smell a rat.To Smell a Rat - something about someone's story that isn't right. An intuition that something isn't right."I smell a rat" means that you are suspicious of something. For example, if you said, "I smell a rat when she talks to me," it means you feel an ulterior motive behind the reason she is talking to you and that perhaps she is up to something.
An Americanism from the 1930's referring to the continual routine of competative activity
the rat is a snitch, so to smell a rat means that u think there is a snitch
It was in 1960 in America
Odeur d'un rat
"Smell like a rose" isn't an idiom because it means just what it looks like it means. You are comparing someone's smell to that of a rose. Comparisons with AS or LIKE are Similes.
Of course, it has a nose.
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The expression 'smell a rat' means that the speaker believes there is something unacceptable in a situation that looks acceptable on its face. Example sentence: The client claims that the fire was an accident, but I smell a rat; his complete coin collection was safe in the trunk of his car.
You smelled a rat in the matter.