1.   He could smell a rat, and he knew just how the men had been cheated.

2.   I smell a rat here - I really do.

3.   It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.

4.   Niki smelled the rat and said unless his driving contract were honoured, he would move to McLaren.

5.   She felt that he was beginning to smell a rat.

6.   When he died in June from cancer, investigators from Liquidators Cork Gulley were called in and soon smelt a rat.

7.   Suffice to say, we smell a rat.

8.   Behind this Super Bowl XXX war of words between Sanders and Ditka, you can almost smell a rat.

9.   Bosic thought he smelled a rat.