adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
smell
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I was surprised that it didn't have a fishy smell .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
smell wrong/fishy/odd etc
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And then you go out with some other woman and she smells wrong.
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So, in short, if a fish smells fishy it is an indication that it is going off.
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The Adkinsons' neighbors smelled wrong in the air, but pinched their noses closed and kept to themselves.
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Why does fish usually smell fishy?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Frank said there was nothing to worry about, but it all sounded very fishy to me.
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There's something fishy about this business, if you ask me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of which sounds a bit fishy -- selling off a chunk of the government to regain control of it?
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But there was something fishy about those actresses because nine months after they had left even unmarried girls found themselves with child.
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Not a smell of anything fishy about one of them.
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That was fishy enough, but what Henry saw next was even more fishy.
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The air inside was rank with the fishy oils of stewing porpoise.
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There's more water at Sea World where kids can touch, feed and learn about anything fishy .
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There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank.