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Danish
Phrase
ugler i mosen
- (idiomatic) smell a rat; to have suspicions that everything is not quite alright and that there may be more to it than meets the eye.
2012, Bo Bergman, Ordens ursprung: Etymologisk ordbok över 2000 ord och uttryck, Bonnier Fakta, →ISBN:När vargen blev allt mer sällsynt och till slut utrotad i Danmark, förlorade det sin mening och ombildades på 1700-talet till Der er ugler i mosen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1991, Nils Eriksson, "I Andans kraft, på Sannings stråt...": De skandinaviska naturforskarmötena 1839-1936, →ISBN:
1939, Vetenskaps-societeten i Lund, Årsbok-Vetenskaps-societeten i Lund: Yearbook of the New society of letters at Lund:Allerede ved Visitatsen 1022 opdagede Biskoppen, at der igen var Ugler i Mosen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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