Discussion
The fire in the office was not just an accident. I smell a rat.
Answer: D
To smell a rat means to suspect some foul play.
The idiom comes from a dog or cat that smells a rat it cannot see: it senses that something hidden is wrong. In the sentence the speaker suspects that the fire was not an accident but deliberate.
'Detect a bad smell' is the literal reading the idiom is built to trap. 'To misunderstand something' and 'to ignore' are unrelated; the idiom is about growing suspicion, not confusion or indifference.
No comment is present. Be the first to comment.
Loading…
Post your comment
Please log in or register to post a comment.
Examination Categories
- SSC Exams
- Banking Exams
- Teaching Exams
- Civil Services Exams
- Railways Exams
- Engineering Recruitment Exams
- Defence Exams
- State Government Exams
- Police Exams
- Insurance Exams
- Nursing Exams
- Other Government Exams
- NRA CET
- PG Entrance Exams
- Campus Placement
- MBA Entrance Exams
- CUET and UG Entrance
- Judiciary Exams
- Regulatory Body Exams
- Software Development