Smell
101smell of an oily rag — noun A very small amount, or the absolute minimum (usually of money). We have found them in the remote corners of Asia Minor, sans souliers, sans culottes, often in rags, living on the smell of an oily rag or a raw onion, trying their best to… …
102smell-o-rama — noun A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor. Scoffers will duly scoff as they did at sound, color, and wide screen. On the other hand, Smellorama did not catch on most movies manage to smell without it …
103smell-o-vision — noun Cinematography with the addition of olfaction, often portrayed as futuristic or far fetched. Beginning as a silent wonder, the medium has been dramatically changed by the addition of sound, color, the wide screen, attempts at 3 D, and even… …
104smell ripe — Australian Slang smell off or bad …
105smell\ a\ rat — v. phr. informal To be suspicious; feel that something is wrong. Every time Tom visits me, one of my ashtrays disappears. I m beginning to smell a rat. When the policeman saw a light go on in the store at midnight, he smelled a rat …
106smell\ out — • ferret out literary • sniff out • smell out v To hunt or drive from hiding; to bring out into the open; search for and find. Jane smelled out the boys secret hiding place in the woods. John ferreted out the answer to the question in the library …
107smell where you're stepping — See I smell where you re stepping …
108smell a rat — become suspicious I don t know what he is doing but something seems strange and I smell a rat …
109smell a rat — informal suspect trickery. → smell …
110Smell a rat — If you smell a rat, you know instinctively that something is wrong or that someone is lying to you …
