like a snake in the grass

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We're like a snake in the grass at a Sunday picnic.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Horrell, Charles

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

"But with some people, Mawruss, they're like a snake in the grass, which it bites the hand that feeds it."

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague

The German submarine rolled lazily in complete isolation, waiting, like a snake in the grass, for its prey.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.