Idiom
smell fishy
Meaning
To seem suspicious.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That deal sounds too good to be true and smells fishy.”
“He offered to sell me a brand new phone for twenty dollars, which really smells fishy.”
“Although the company presented a polished report, the sudden disappearance of their financial records made the entire situation smell fishy to the auditors.”
Examples
simple
“That deal sounds too good to be true and smells fishy.”
contextual
“He offered to sell me a brand new phone for twenty dollars, which really smells fishy.”
complex
“Although the company presented a polished report, the sudden disappearance of their financial records made the entire situation smell fishy to the auditors.”
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