slippery as an eel
Example Sentences
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Its narrative is slippery as an eel and tangled like the murky, wreckage-strewn waterways of its Oxfordshire setting.
From New York Times
As I walked uphill, repeating Ashbery’s lines to myself, I found them as slippery as an eel, almost Heraclitean because it’s so hard to say the same line of Ashbery exactly the same way twice.
From Salon
Tommy was as quick—and as slippery—as an eel.
From Project Gutenberg
In Hudson’s words, Messi has “chameleon eyes” and is as “slippery as an eel covered in Vaseline” and plays with the predatory appetite of a “zombie hunter looking for a Twinkie.”
From New York Times
Willitts wasn't much taller than I and he was a thin little shrimp, but believe me, he was as tough as leather and as slippery as an eel.
From Project Gutenberg
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