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It means your intuition (gut feeling) is telling you that something is wrong or is not quite what it seems to be.

Example: "I just saw the man bumming a cigarette, so when he approached me trying to sell me a plan to make money, all sorts of alarm bells started going off in my mind. If he couldn't buy a pack of cigarettes, then how could he help me make money?"

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