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slippery as an eel





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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

Blackwell was a bad lot, treacherous, vindictive, slippery as an eel.

From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison

To-day she was polite, but cool, and as slippery as an eel.

From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

Yes," rejoined another of the horsemen, "and the young brat is as slippery as an eel.

From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by John Henry Goldfrap




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