To suspect something about to happen. The allusion is to a cat or dog smelling out vermin.
I smell treason. I discern treason involved; I have some aim that would lead to treason.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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