like a snake in the grass
Example Sentences
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We're like a snake in the grass at a Sunday picnic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looks to me like a snake in the grass.
From The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman
She was a long, black ship, lying low in the water, like a snake in the grass, with a desperate wicked look, and altogether of dishonest dimensions.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
Everyone despises me in this school, and I’ve an enemy, a secret enemy, who is hiding like a snake in the grass.
From Etheldreda the Ready A School Story by Charles Horrell
Ole devil like a snake in the grass, Sunshine in my soul, He’s always in some sister’s path, Sunshine in my soul.
From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard W. Odum
