smell a rat
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When Clara didn't come back with my money, I began to smell a rat.
Другие идиомы:
- rat race
- when the cat's away, the mice will play
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- play cat and mouse with (someone)
- as quiet as a mouse
- as blind as a bat
- rat on (someone)
- as poor as a church mouse
- have bats in one's belfry
- like a bat out of hell
- rat out on (someone)
- ahead of the pack
- alley cat
- as awkward as a cow on roller skates
- as busy as a beaver