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Smell out   /smɛl aʊt/   Listen
Smell out

verb
1.
Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling.  Synonyms: nose out, scent out, sniff out.
2.
Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively.  Synonyms: sense, smell.  "I smell trouble" , "Smell out corruption"






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"Smell out" Quotes from Famous Books



... agreed with me that the Bill should be introduced into the Lords, and having also agreed with Rosebery that it should be introduced in the Commons, Rosebery again wrote: 'I am afraid if you go on bringing this measure before the peers they will begin to smell out suspicious matter ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... but you'll have them." He reined the cob to block Graves's further retreat, forcing him well upon the string-piece of the dock. "You're here to smell out canal scandals," he charged. "You want to know what became of the marketable stone that was taken from the canal prism. You'll get your wish right here and now. I took that stone, my pattern of ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... thought him wiser and cleverer than any white boy in the world. He could smell out 'possums unerringly, and I firmly believed he could see yards through the muddiest of dam water; for once, when I dropped my boat in, and was not sure of the spot, he fished it out first try. With cotton reels and ...
— Over the Sliprails • Henry Lawson

... who had charge of the Plaats were too surely his creatures to betray Bough Van Busch. "Let the dogs smell around the place," he thought, when by the sounds that reached him in his hiding-place he knew the Advance had halted. "They'll tire of the game before they smell out me!" ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... gift comes most opportunely. To-morrow is the day of the great annual festival in Mashonaland, when I review all my soldiers, and when the witch doctors smell out those who are my secret enemies. I will wear it then. But thou, white man, must show me how each thing is used, for I have never before seen ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood



Words linked to "Smell out" :   sniff out, scent out, perceive, smell, nose out



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