smell trouble
smell danger

He glared down at us and I smelled trouble, in addition to the pong.

I could smell trouble in the making, and oddly enough it might have been avoided by a casual comment.

He could almost smell trouble coming on a soft night wind blowing across the ranch.

I've been in business long enough to smell trouble, and I made up my mind to have Janice pay me as we went along.

He had mentioned the art of smelling trouble, the hunch ability.

He was smelling trouble now, the short hairs rising on his neck.

But one of the party's youth leaders smells trouble as he campaigns in poor villages.

But Pa had smelled trouble, a gift that seldom failed him, and we were ready.

"The market smells substantial trouble from several directions," said one government bond dealer.

But when the butler smelled trouble, it was worth listening to him.