英语词汇“to smell a rat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to smell a rat: to suspect deception, foul play, or that something is not what it at first appears to be; to doubt whether a fact, story, action, etc., is true or genuine.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > suspect, distrust [phrase]

to have, take, occasionally bear suspicion13..

to have or hold (a person or thing) suspectc1380

to have (or hold) in suspectc1386

to have supposinga1400

to enter into suspicion with1471

to have in suspicion1471

to have in jealousy1523

to smell a ratc1540

to smell a fox1599

to be or look shy on or at1837

c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 414 Yf they smell a ratt, They grisely chide and chatt.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. ii. 1272 Ile say no more, gesse at my meaning, I smel a rat.

1736 W. R. Chetwood Voy. W. O. G. Vaughan I. 170 I ask'd her so many Questions, that, tho' a Woman ignorant enough, she began to smell a Rat.

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford III. x. 247 Whew! I smell a rat; this stolen child, then, was no other than Paul.

1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes ii. 35 Mother..suggested there might be a delivery strike, and right then I smelled a rat because Mary had not mentioned any strike.

2003 Independent on Sunday 6 Apr. (ArtsEtc. section) 6/5 He's just very naïve, and when Natalie comes on to him, he never smells a rat.

单词	to smell a rat
释义	> as lemmas to smell a rat P2. to smell a rat: to suspect deception, foul play, or that something is not what it at first appears to be; to doubt whether a fact, story, action, etc., is true or genuine. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > suspect, distrust [phrase] to have, take, occasionally bear suspicion13.. to have or hold (a person or thing) suspectc1380 to have (or hold) in suspectc1386 to have supposinga1400 to enter into suspicion with1471 to have in suspicion1471 to have in jealousy1523 to smell a ratc1540 to smell a fox1599 to be or look shy on or at1837 c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 414 Yf they smell a ratt, They grisely chide and chatt. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. ii. 1272 Ile say no more, gesse at my meaning, I smel a rat. 1736 W. R. Chetwood Voy. W. O. G. Vaughan I. 170 I ask'd her so many Questions, that, tho' a Woman ignorant enough, she began to smell a Rat. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford III. x. 247 Whew! I smell a rat; this stolen child, then, was no other than Paul. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes ii. 35 Mother..suggested there might be a delivery strike, and right then I smelled a rat because Mary had not mentioned any strike. 2003 Independent on Sunday 6 Apr. (ArtsEtc. section) 6/5 He's just very naïve, and when Natalie comes on to him, he never smells a rat. extracted from ratn.¹ < as lemmas
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