The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Experience disappointment - metaphorically

2. "Let me finish what I have to say."

3. Become suspicious

4. Finally understand

5. Make contact or reconnect with someone

 

Answers:

 

1. Taste defeat

2. "Hear me out."

3. Smell a rat

4. See the light

5. Touch base - - - words describing the five senses

 

Credit: Randolph Ross

COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS