slippery as an eel
Example Sentences
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Memory may seem to be a guarantor of memoir's authenticity, but when pressed into service for a more general kind of food history, it can be become as slippery as an eel.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
The Dashew 83 is as slippery as an eel below the waterline.
From Time Magazine Archive
To these complexities, Philosopher Ortega adds the paradoxical, ironical peculiarities of his own original mind�which is as slippery as an eel and as full of springy checks and balances as a cat's legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the same, that fellow’s as slippery as an eel.
From The Black Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Smithers is as sharp as tacks, as slippery as an eel, and as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
From Back Home by Wood, Eugene
