Н-267

НЮХОМ ЧУЯТЬ (ЧУВСТВОВАТЬ) что ЧУЯТЬ НОСОМ all coll VP subj: human fixed WO ( var. with нюхом)) to be aware of, know, foresee sth. by intuition

X нюхом чует Y = X senses Y

X realizes (knows) instinctively (that...) X can tell (that...) X can tell by some sixth sense (that...) X feels it in his bones X feels (has a feeling) in his bones (that...) (in refer, to trouble, danger, a scandal etc) X sniffs Y (ahead)

(1st pers sing only) нюхом чую = something tells me.

Забулдыги, взяточники и развратники нюхом чуяли в ней (начальнице лагеря) что-то чужое и отскакивали от неё, как, говорят, отскакивает волк от хищников другой породы (Гинзбург 2). Debauchees, bribe takers, and rakes sensed something alien about her (the camp commandant) and recoiled from her, just as a wolf, so they say, will recoil from other predators (2a).