stink like a mackerel

Definitions

1. 1

   To reek

   To reek; to smell terrible.

2. 2

   To smell fishy, to stink to high heaven (to look extremely suspicious or unconvincing).

   • In summary, I think that the waterfront situation "stinks like a mackerel in the hot sunlight."
   • In spite of the pipe he drew on so often that he seemed forever wrapped in a cloud of acrid blue smoke, Murphy stank like a mackerel.

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