She asked the guard why his van smelt so fishy, and learned that he had to carry a lot of fish every day, and that the wetness in the hollows of the corrugated floor had all drained out of boxes full of plaice and cod and mackerel and soles and smelts.
" "There is no doubt there is something fishy in the creature's past life," said Olive, who began to think she was decidedly out of the conversation, which had centred so amazingly around Valancy.
Fishy = strange and suspicious smell a rat ,,.
This smell clings to your mouth, giving your breath an unpleasant fishy odor.
"Look here," he said, "there's something very fishy about this.
It has a fishy smell, and is yellowish and colourful.
Think fishy.
Cod fish Oh dear another one that smells too fishy for me.