slippery eel
Example Sentences
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She's a slippery eel, deceiving no one more consistently than herself.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2024
An excellent angler, its skill in capture was seen to greatest advantage when it had to encounter an unusually slippery eel.
From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
Vautrin And see that he does not escape like that slippery eel of a Saint-Charles, that madman, who came for the purpose of breaking up our establishment—for I—but I never threaten.
From Vautrin by Honoré de Balzac
"I should call you a slippery eel," said Ben, while Polly ran around to the other side to tuck the blanket-end in again.
From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney
If we let Dudley quit the room he'll go down and tell them; and before we know where we are, that slippery eel will have wriggled through our fingers, as he always wriggles.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
