smell fishy

English

Verb

smell fishy (third-person singular simple present smells fishy, present participle smelling fishy, simple past and past participle smelled fishy or smelt fishy)

1. (informal, idiomatic) To seem suspicious.

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: daar zit een luchtje aan (nl)
• Esperanto: esti suspektinda
• Finnish: olla koira haudattuna
• French: puer (fr), sentir l'arnaque, y avoir anguille sous roche
• German: spanisch vorkommen
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see coś się święci
• Portuguese: cheirar a esturro
• Spanish: oler a pólvora, oler a chamusquina, oler a cuerno quemado, dar mala espina

See also

• stink like a mackerel