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smell 1. noun digital-vaginal contact US, 1974 2. verb ► smell Apple pieto be near your date of expected return from military service in Vietnam to the US US, 1991.► smell for waterto find a spring using a divining rod CANADA, 1960.► smell some gasto be transported by motor vehicle US, 2002
idiomsmellsth smells fishy(also sth seems, sounds etc fishy)used in order to say that you do not believe a story or think that a situation is what it seems to be, and that you think something wrong or illegal is happening:This whole thing is beginning to smell bloody fishy - first he says he's a doctor, then a government official. I think we should check his story.The latest proposal, to split the cost of the stadium between the City and the Giants, sounds fishy to me.smell sth fishy: Tenants first smelled something fishy when their landlord disappeared and didn't leave a forwarding address. —see also smell a rat phrasesmell[smelled also smelt BrE , smelled also smelt BrE , smelling]
smell of
smell of sth to have a smell that is like a particular thing: The house still smells of paint. When he came home smelling of whiskey, she scolded him fiercely.■ SIMILAR TO: reek of, stink (of)
smell out 1. smell sth/sb out • smell out sth/sb if an animal smells out something or someone, it finds them by using its sense of smell: A fox could hide in the woods after dark, but our dogs would smell it out.2. smell out sth • smell sth out to discover something that someone want to keep hidden or secret because you have a natural ability to do this: Dobson had a cunning instinct that could smell out weakness in others. They feared her because somehow she always smelt out their innermost secrets.3. smell out sth • smell sth BrE to fill a place with an unpleasant smell: The trouble with fried onions is that they smell the place out for days.■ SIMILAR TO: stink out informal
smell up
smell sth up • smell up sth AmE to fill a place with an unpleasant smell: Those cats of here make a mess on the floor and smell up the whole apartment.■ SIMILAR TO: stink out informal, smell out BrE
See:- a rose by any other name (would smell as sweet)
- come out smelling like a rose
- come out smelling of roses
- come up roses
- come up smelling like a rose
- come up smelling like roses, to
- come up smelling of roses
- come up/out of something smelling of roses
- fail the smell test
- I smell you
- It smells like someone/somebody died in (some place)!
- live off smell of an oily rag
- live on the smell of an oil rag
- live on the smell of an oily rag
- new car smell
- pass the smell test
- rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- run off smell of an oily rag
- run on the smell of an oily rag
- see (something) a mile off
- see, spot, smell, etc. something a mile off
- smell a rat
- smell a rat, to
- smell blood
- smell fishy
- smell fishy, to
- smell it up
- smell like a rose
- smell of
- smell of (something)
- smell of the lamp
- smell out
- smell test
- smell the roses
- smell the stuff
- smell to heaven
- smell to high heaven
- smell to high heaven, to
- smell up
- smell/stink to high heaven
- smelling (oneself)
- stink to high heaven
- stop and smell the roses
- the smell of an oily rag
- the smell of the lamp
- the sweet smell of success
- the sweet smell of victory
- wake up and smell the coffee
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